Trump storms out of executive order signing ceremony
US President Donald Trump has abruptly left the Oval Office of the White House without signing two new executive orders on trade enforcement after a reporter asked him a controversial question.
During a signing ceremony in the White House on Friday, reporters asked Trump questions about his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who has offered to testify on the alleged Russian involvement in the US election in return for immunity from prosecution.
The president however ignored the questions and went to another room. Vice President Mike Pence chased him with the folders containing the two executive orders.
Before leaving the room, Trump said, “Thank you everybody, you're going to see some very, very strong results very, very quickly. Thank you very much.”
Trump had earlier tweeted that Flynn “should ask for immunity because the investigations were a ‘witch hunt.’”
"Mike Flynn should ask for immunity in that this is a witch hunt (excuse for big election loss), by media & Dems, of historic proportion!" Trump tweeted Friday.
Last week, Flynn agreed to testify as part of congressional probes into the matter as long as he is protected from prosecution.
Moments before he left the Oval Office, Trump had announced that the two orders would initiate a "great revival" for US manufacturing. He implied his campaign message in his speech again saying that trade pacts have caused factory jobs to flow overseas.
According to the White House, Trump later signed the orders aimed at identifying and targeting foreign trade abuses behind closed doors.
The completion of a large-scale report that will track trade deficits country-by-country and product-by-product is on the first order, while the other aims at improving the collection of duties on imports.
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