Donald Trump says that he asked the parents of Harry Dunn to meet their son’s killer at the White House because Boris Johnson asked him to do so. The US President said that he arranged for the family to come to Washington DC last night after the Prime Minister spoke with him and says Harry’s grieving parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, had initially wanted to meet Anne Sacoolas. ‘I spoke with Boris,’ he said. ‘He asked me if I’d do that and I did it. Unfortunately, they wanted to meet with her but when we had everybody together they decided not to meet, perhaps they had lawyers involved by that time, I don’t know. The people were lovely, they were very nice. They were desperately sad.’ Mr Trump repeatedly asked them to meet the American diplomat’s wife as she waited outside the Oval Office and when they resisted he told them: ’She’s here so let’s get some healing’. The Republican said today: ‘My meeting with the family was beautiful in a certain way. They did not want to meet with the person in question but we had a very good meeting, they’re very nice people.’ This evening, a Downing Street spokesman… Read full this story
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