Donald Trump intends to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told CNN Monday. The White House has not yet confirmed that meeting with CNN, and the State Department has only said that Lavrov will be in Washington, D.C., this week to meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Those meetings between Lavrov and Pompeo are intended to "discuss a broad range of regional and bilateral issues." One can only assume his meeting with Trump is to pass along Vladimir Putin's latest marching orders. It's an interesting choice for Trump to make during another impeachment week and on the heels of another report from the Justice Department, this time from the independent inspector general, that concludes, "We did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced his decision […] we found that Crossfire Hurricane was opened for an authorized investigative purpose and with sufficient factual predication." In other words, the Trump-Russia investigation was not a political witch hunt.
It's worth remembering that the last time Lavrov was hanging out with Trump in the White House, Trump revealed classified information to Lavrov that was damaging to U.S. security. It was also damaging to Israeli intelligence, as we learned a few days later, because the intel Trump leaked was from Israel. Which Trump confirmed in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.