Following is a transcript of those comments, as prepared by the White House. It has been lightly edited for clarity. The first section is at the White House.
REPORTER: Mr. President, how’s Rudy doing?
REPORTER: When did you find out?
TRUMP: I tell you what — Rudy is a great guy, but he just started a day ago. But he really has his heart into it. He’s working hard. He’s learning the subject matter. And he’s going to be issuing a statement too. But he is a great guy. He knows it’s a witch hunt. That’s what he knows. He’s seen a lot of them. And he said he’s never seen anything so horrible.
As an example, 33,000 emails requested by Congress with a subpoena, and they get burned, they get deleted. And nobody says anything. Give me a break.
So Rudy knows it’s a witch hunt. He started yesterday. He’ll get his facts straight.
He’s a great guy. But what he does is he feels it’s a very bad thing for our country, and he happens to be right.
REPORTER: When did you find out what the retainer was being spent on?
TRUMP: Well, you’re going to find out, because we’re going to give a full list. And people know. And virtually everything said has been said incorrectly, and it’s been said wrong, or it’s been covered wrong by the press — just like NBC and ABC yesterday covered the story wrong.
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