Russian officials believe President’s Trump’s decision to cancel a meeting with President Vladimir Putin may have been based on a “domestic political situation” — like Michael Cohen’s Thursday guilty plea — and not Russia’s actions after a naval clash with Ukraine last week, CNN reported, citing the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.
During a press conference on Friday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova questioned President Trump’s rationale, which he explained in a tweet en route to the G-20 summit in Argentina on Thursday, about two hours after the Cohen news broke.
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Source: TPM