President Donald Trump and Rod Rosenstein(Photo: AFP / Getty Images)

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Thursday postponed the meeting of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein until next week for a brief trip to the White House on Thursday morning for a meeting with other administration officials then with Trump himself. even.

Trump, who was returning from New York when Rosenstein entered the West Wing, still has an afternoon meeting with Rosenstein temporarily on his schedule, but officials said it could be delayed because of the hearing on allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court candidate Brett Kavanaugh.

"If it has to be pushed for a few hours or maybe the next day, it will do it," presidential advisor Kellyanne Conway told Fox News.

Trump plans to talk about Rosenstein's future at the Justice Department as a result of the information he has raised by invoking the 25th Amendment last year to seek the removal of the President.

On Wednesday, Trump said he could delay the meeting to avoid interfering with the hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Christine Blasey Ford's allegations about her allegations that Kavanaugh had him sexually assaulted while they were both teenagers. Kavanaugh vehemently denied the allegations and Trump defended his candidate.

The urgency of a meeting between Rosenstein and Trump seemed to abate after the president had shown his support for the Deputy Attorney General to remain in office, despite reports on the 25th amendment.

"I'd rather keep it (Rosenstein) and let it finish," Trump told reporters after a meeting of the US General Assembly in New York, alluding to Rosenstein's monitoring of

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Trump had not spoken with Rosenstein on Thursday but would keep reporters aware of the state of the meeting.

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