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Which Associated Press report caused former President Donald Trump to reportedly throw his lunch?

Which Associated Press report caused former President Donald Trump to reportedly throw his lunch?
I remember hearing noise coming from down the hallway. So I poked my head out of the office and I saw the valet walking towards our office. He had said get the chief down to the dining room, the president wants him. So Mark went down to the dining room and came back to the office *** few minutes later, after Mark had returned, I left the office and went down to the dining room and I noticed that the door was propped open in the valley was inside the dining room, changing the tablecloth off of the dining room table. He motioned for me to come in and then pointed towards the front of the room near the fireplace mantel. In the tv where I first noticed there was ketchup dripping down the wall and there's *** shattered porcelain plate on the floor. The valet had articulated that the president was extremely angry at the Attorney General's ap interview and had thrown his lunch against the wall um, which was causing them to have to clean up. So I, I grabbed *** towel and started wiping the catch up off the wall to help the valet out. Um and he said something to the effect of, he's really ticked off about this, I would stay clear of him for right now. He's really, really ticked off about this right now
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Which Associated Press report caused former President Donald Trump to reportedly throw his lunch?
The news story that reportedly caused former President Donald Trump to throw his lunch against a White House wall came because of an interview that former Attorney General William Barr had arranged with The Associated Press.The story, which was published on Dec. 1, 2020, quoted Barr as saying that the U.S. Justice Department had uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could change the outcome of the 2020 election.In testimony before the Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson recalled “hearing noise coming from down the hallway” around the time the AP interview was published.She noticed a door propped open in a West Wing dining room where Trump had eaten, and a valet who was changing a tablecloth.“He motioned for me to come in and then pointed towards the front of the room near the fireplace mantle and the TV when I first noticed there was ketchup dripping down the wall and there was a shattered porcelain plate on the floor,” Hutchinson said.The valet told her that Trump was angry about Barr's interview with AP and had thrown his lunch against the wall, she said.“I grabbed a towel to clean up ketchup from the wall,” she said.The story had been written by AP Justice Department reporter Michael Balsamo, who had been told a day earlier that Barr wanted him to come in for lunch. In videotaped testimony to the committee, Barr said that he “felt it was time to say something” about the voter fraud claims.Recognizing the importance of the statement when Barr said the department had uncovered no evidence of voter fraud, Balsamo asked him to repeat it, and he did. He quickly filed his story from an office in the Justice Department when lunch was over.Neither Balsamo nor AP editors had any comment Tuesday about Hutchinson's testimony.Shortly after the interview that day, Barr went to the White House for a previously scheduled meeting with Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, for whom Hutchinson was a special assistant.“I told my secretary that I thought I would probably be fired and told ... not to come back to my office, so you might have to pack up,” Barr said in his videotaped testimony, released in an earlier hearing.He was asked to see Trump, who was “as mad as I've ever seen him,” and suggested that the attorney general hated him.Barr resigned as attorney general a few weeks later.

The news story that reportedly caused former President Donald Trump to throw his lunch against a White House wall came because of .

The story, which was published on Dec. 1, 2020, quoted Barr as saying that the U.S. Justice Department had uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could change the outcome of the 2020 election.

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In testimony before the Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson recalled “hearing noise coming from down the hallway” around the time the AP interview was published.

She noticed a door propped open in a West Wing dining room where Trump had eaten, and a valet who was changing a tablecloth.

“He motioned for me to come in and then pointed towards the front of the room near the fireplace mantle and the TV when I first noticed there was ketchup dripping down the wall and there was a shattered porcelain plate on the floor,” Hutchinson said.

The valet told her that Trump was angry about Barr's interview with AP and had thrown his lunch against the wall, she said.

“I grabbed a towel to clean up ketchup from the wall,” she said.

The story had been written by AP Justice Department reporter Michael Balsamo, who had been told a day earlier that Barr wanted him to come in for lunch. In videotaped testimony to the committee, Barr said that he “felt it was time to say something” about the voter fraud claims.

Recognizing the importance of the statement when Barr said the department had uncovered no evidence of voter fraud, Balsamo asked him to repeat it, and he did. He quickly filed his story from an office in the Justice Department when lunch was over.

Neither Balsamo nor AP editors had any comment Tuesday about Hutchinson's testimony.

Shortly after the interview that day, Barr went to the White House for a previously scheduled meeting with Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, for whom Hutchinson was a special assistant.

“I told my secretary that I thought I would probably be fired and told ... not to come back to my office, so you might have to pack up,” Barr said in his videotaped testimony, released in an earlier hearing.

He was asked to see Trump, who was “as mad as I've ever seen him,” and suggested that the attorney general hated him.

Barr resigned as attorney general a few weeks later.