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Mike Pence: “Before I left the Oval Office yesterday, I asked the President if he had a message for our troops here in Afghanistan.…”

On the recordDecember 20, 2017
Before I left the Oval Office yesterday, I asked the President if he had a message for our troops here in Afghanistan. And he looked at me without hesitation from behind the resolute desk and he said, tell them I love them.
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Mike Pence
Republican · Indiana

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Mike Pence relayed a message from President Trump to U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

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