Even if Trump chose the summit dates to offset his “national emergency” and the second government shutdown threat, he is now whining that his failure at that summit was due to domestic politics.
This is not the first time when his international failures only magnified his domestic political shortcomings, as he has on several occasions canceled events or returned early because of domestic news.
This tweet also diverts attention from the “coincidental” overlap of his Hanoi visit with that of Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister.
Trump first made this claim during his presser there, and now repeats it if only to offset his mistake in defending Kim Jong Un in the matter of Otto Warmbier.
WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump scheduled a dinner for Wednesday with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un at their summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, but only after House Democrats announced that his former lawyer and “fixer” would publicly testify on Capitol Hill at about the same time.
The apparent “counterprogramming” of Michael Cohen’s expected damaging testimony concerns arms control and national security experts, who fear that Trump is trying to distract public attention from Cohen, even at the cost of U.S. interests.
“I’m shocked ― shocked ― that this White House would contour its foreign policy around an unfolding domestic scandal,” joked Ned Price, a former CIA analyst and a National Security Council spokesman under then-President Barack Obama. “In this case, we see the president’s domestic troubles literally driving his actions on the world stage.”
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- President Trump called Rep. Matt Gaetz from his North Korean summit to discuss with the lawmaker's now-deleted threat to Michael Cohen
- 'I was happy to do it for you. You just keep killing it,' Rep. Matthew Gaetz was heard telling President Trump about his Michael Cohen tweet
- Gaetz caused a fire storm when he tweeted a threat to Trump's former personal lawyer shortly before Cohen testified in public about the president
- Gaetz said Wednesday he personally apologized to Cohen
- He was seen in the hearing room where Cohen testified on Wednesday
- Earlier on Wednesday, Gaetz deleted a tweet accusing Cohen of infidelity
- He apologized after he was reprimanded by Speaker Nancy Pelosi
- Gaetz is under investigation by the Florida Bar
- Democrats want an Ethics probe and a criminal investigation
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