CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FBI/GOP: “Let’s build a new FBI building — either a renovation of the existing, or even better would be a new building. So we have that in the [coronavirus stimulus] bill. It should stay.”
[Reporter: “But Republicans don’t want it in the bill.”]
“Then Republicans should go back to school and learn. They need a new building. It’s a bad building. It’s a dangerous building. You have slabs falling off. It’s not a good building from the inside, and it’s a very expensive building. They need a new building, and we can do it very easily… So the FBI building is not new; this is something they’ve been talking about for many, many years, for decades.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure,” whitehouse.gov, July 29, 2020