In this May 28, 2019, file photo, people play golf at President Donald Trump's Doonbeg Golf Club in the County Clare village of Doonbeg, Ireland.Asked on Tuesday if the president asked Pence to stay at his property, the vice president's chief of staff, Marc Short, told reporters that he did not think it was "a request, like a command" -- but rather "a suggestion."
"It's like when we went through the trip, it's like, well, he's going to Doonbeg because that's where the Pence family is from," Short said Tuesday. "It's like, 'Well, you should stay at my place.'"
Early Wednesday, though, the vice president's office followed up with a statement from a spokesperson who said "the decision to stay at" the resort "was solely a decision by the Office of the Vice President and was based on the requirement to find accommodations near the Vice President’s ancestral hometown that could satisfy official meetings on both coasts of the Emerald Isle."
(MORE: Trump says he won't make any money if 2020 G-7 summit is hosted at his Miami resort) Trump on Wednesday said he had "no involvement" in Pence's decision to stay at his resort.
"From what I understood, he was going there," Trump said. "Then I heard he was going there, but I didn't -- it wasn't my idea for Mike to go there. Mike went there because his family is there. That's my -- that's my understanding of it."
Asked if he suggested Pence stay there, Trump replied, "No, I didn't -- I don't suggest anything. I don't suggest it."
The president on Wednesday also denied ever speaking to Barr about using his hotel in Washington.
"With Mike Pence, we never spoke about it and with Bill, I never spoke about -- Attorney General Barr, we never spoke about it," Trump said. "But, that's what they choose."
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