Philadelphia DA Krasner says he will keep piece of Trump's ballroom after 'we all blow it up'
Krasner said the $400 million project is a national security issue and vowed to keep fighting over the White House ballroom.
- On Tuesday, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner vowed to 'blow up' President Donald Trump's White House ballroom during the 24th annual slavery commiseration, saying pieces would be sold as paperweights.
- The ceremony occurred amid a legal battle over the slavery exhibit at the President's House, where the Trump administration replaced original panels under the executive order 'Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.'
- Trump's ballroom is under construction on the site of the former East Wing, with estimated costs around $400 million, including about $200 million in private funds; the Supreme Court is reviewing a lawsuit challenging the project.
- Krasner also described Trump as a 'pain in the ass' and the 'embodiment of hate, the embodiment of ignorance and the embodiment of depriving people of their vote and education,' vowing the Kennedy Center would not be renamed for the president.
- The Washington Examiner reported that critics consider Krasner a 'disgrace' to Philadelphia, though Krasner insists the slavery exhibit will remain as long as the federal park stands.
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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner condemned President Trump’s White House ballroom, declaring that he believes it will eventually be destroyed. “In about 10 to 15 years, we are all going to be sitting here with smiles on our faces,” Krasner said, as per NBC 10 Philadelphia. “And I’m going to have a paperweight sitting on my desk. And do you know what that paper weight’s going to be? It’s going to be a piece of the ballroom after we bl…
Blanche Blasts Philly DA Over Ballroom Comments
The Hill reports: Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday ripped into the Philadelphia district attorney for suggesting that the White House ballroom would be blown to bits while noting that he was entitled to a piece of the shrapnel as a keepsake. “The ballroom is being built. And it’s disgusting that a district attorney in Philadelphia, who, by the way, is a city with its own problems, is so focused on what the president is doing in the Whi…
Top Trump official blasts Larry Krasner over comments about blowing up White House ballroom
Attorney General Todd Blanche said Krasner's comments that the White House ballroom should be blown up were "disgusting." The district attorney said he stands by his remarks "100%."
Philadelphia D.A. vows to keep piece of Trump’s White House ballroom ‘after we all blow it up’
Philadelphia D.A. Larry Krasner said he plans to keep a chunk of President Trump's White House ballroom as a desk paperweight once the structure is demolished, telling a crowd at an annual slavery commemoration event that "we're gonna blow it up."
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