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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was holding a roundtable event with conservative influencers about antifa Wednesday when Secretary of State Marco Rubio, standing in the back corner of the White House’s Blue Room, caught his eye.
He had news for Trump, he said, but it would have to wait until after the media left. Then Rubio passed the president a note. News photographers in the room zoomed in on the handwriting on White House stationery that read, “You need to approve a Truth Social post soon so you can announce deal first.”
It prompted Trump to proclaim, “We’re very close to a deal in the Middle East.”
The influencer event had already been going on for nearly two hours when Rubio first approached. The president invited him to come in, and Rubio whispered something to Trump bef