New details have emerged about a "top secret" construction project taking place underneath the White House. A new CNN report includes what little is known about the construction efforts, focused on a defensive bunker underneath what was formerly the East Wing of the White House. The East Wing, which was controversially demolished by President Donald Trump in October in order to build his own $400 million ballroom, sat atop a secure underground facility built by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II. The facility beneath the former East Wing previously housed the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, which was utilized during the Sept. 11 attacks and later by Trump in May 2020 during the George Floyd protests.
In response to reports about his use of the bunker, Trump demanded that officials find and prosecute those responsible for leaking information to the press.
In his book on the 2020 election, Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender wrote, "Trump boiled over about the bunker story as soon as they arrived and shouted at them to smoke out whoever had leaked it. It was the most upset some aides had ever seen the president."
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