Trump's team takes it back
"We have to look at their whole debt structure," Trump said. "They owe a lot of money to your friends on Wall Street. We will have to wipe that out. You can say goodbye to that. I don't know if it's Goldman Sachs, but whoever it is, you can wave goodbye to that." Trump told Fox News' Geraldo Rivera in an interview in San Juan yesterday.
Today, White House budget director Mulvaney is doing damage control on CNN, saying we should not take the President's remarks word for word. He said Trump was referring to Puerto Rico's need to fix its debt problem.
In other news, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis yesterday said the US should remain in the Iran nuclear deal.
