[ad_1]
Washington.- The government of Donald Trump has decided to postpone the second summit between the President of the United States and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, lagging behind the fact that the investigation into the Russian conspiracy is continues.
The White House's national security, John Bolton, announced in a statement that Trump prefers that the meeting with Putin takes place "once the witch hunt" of the special prosecutor of Russia, Robert Mueller, and leaves for the "Principles" of 2019 the option of a new meeting
The decision is another of the White House marches after the resounding summit in Helsinki, Finland, which caused a black week for the government Trump, full of criticism and chaos that forced the tycoon to change the statements and constantly qualify the policies and proposals.
The change of date of a second summit, originally scheduled for the fall of this year, coincides with a new wave of criticism and detachment of Republican Party leaders toward the president's ideas. "We have made it clear [a Trump] that Putin would not be welcome on the Capitol," said Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell a day earlier
The Kremlin was cautious and did not immediately respond at the invitation of Putin.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appeared yesterday before the Foreign Affairs Committee to explain the country's international politics, during a session devoted to the secrecy that still surrounds the meeting. private between Trump and Putin.
In what appeared to be an interrogation, Pompeo refused to answer what he knew of the meeting, hiding that it was about private conversations between presidents. He said that he had spoken "on many occasions" with Trump of the meeting, and denied having reviewed the notes of the translators of the leaders, or spoke with them.
What Pompeo clarified is the maintenance of a certain hard line with Russia. . He promised that the United States would not recognize the annexation of Crimea or did not plan to lift the sanctions for the moment, on the contrary, he was willing to work with Congress to extend them.
cybernetic, since that was himself – when he was still director of the CIA – who informed him of the "grave consequences" of these acts.
Source link
