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Trump's UN Escalator Incident Is Under Investigation
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3:03Now PlayingDavid Gura, host of the Bloomberg 'Big Take' podcast discusses the latest headlines from the UN meeting in NYC.
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday there were two things he got from the United Nations: “a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.”
The teleprompter malfunctioned during his grievance-laden speech before the General Assembly. Another snag occurred when First Lady Melania Trump stepped onto an escalator at the New York headquarters and it ground to a halt, likely because a safety mechanism was triggered by someone in the US delegation, according to the UN.
Still, Trump’s spokeswoman suggested someone at the UN may have purposefully caused the escalator mishap. Now the Secret Service is investigating if both the teleprompter and the escalator were tampered with, according to people familiar with the matter. The seemingly minor episodes risked becoming a fresh source of friction after Trump blasted the UN as an ineffectual talking shop during his speech to the world body.
“I know that we have people, including United States Secret Service, who are looking into this to try to get to the bottom of it and if we find these were UN staffers who were purposely trying to trip up, literally trip up the president and the first lady of the United States, there better be accountability for those people and I will personally see to it,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday night on Fox News.
It was determined after looking at the escalator’s central processing unit that the escalator had stopped after a built-in safety mechanism was activated, according to a statement from UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric.
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