Annual performance review time. As with the G-7, he will hector NATO on paying their “fair share”, and disrupt things further in Europe as the international press watches the protests over his presence.
President Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani said Wednesday that the president’s decision on whether to sit for an interview with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III could be delayed until mid- to late July as his legal team assesses the impact of a new report by the Justice Department’s inspector general.
Giuliani said last week that he expected Trump and his attorneys to decide about a face-to-face interview by the end of this month. But in an interview Wednesday, Giuliani said the inspector-general report about the FBI’s conduct during the 2016 Hillary Clinton email investigation has upended that plan as the president and his team discuss the fallout.
“I’m advising him to stay put, to hold our horses a little,” Giuliani told The Washington Post, about an hour after Giuliani said he spoke with Trump. “I doubt August, and I doubt too far into July. But I do think things have changed.”
Two possibilities for the meeting are either before a NATO summit in Brussels on July 11 or after Trump’s visit to Britain on July 13, one of the people said. Both people asked not to be identified discussing the plans because they aren’t final.
White House National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis on Thursday confirmed in a tweet that U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton will visit Russia next week to discuss a “potential meeting” between Trump and Putin.
The White House didn’t comment further. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, declined to comment on a conference call with reporters on Thursday, in which he also said that the Kremlin expects Bolton to visit Russia.
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