Trump, Putin to meet in July, Russians announce

The only way to make sense of this week’s stunning events is to conclude there is something that President Trump desperately wants to hide.

Initially the White House cited a Justice Department memo criticizing Comey’s handling of last year’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails as the impetus for Trump’s decision.

“He was not doing a good job”, said President Donald Trump. Hoover’s successor L Patrick Gray, acting director under then-president Richard Nixon, was forced out after just under a year for obeying White House orders and burning Watergate-related documents.

The cameraman, who stood feet from Mr Trump as he talked with Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and the ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, had told the White House he was Mr Lavrov’s official photographer, the source said.

US President Donald Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in July as part of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Russian state media said Thursday.

“We know that drugs and crime go hand-in-hand”, Sessions said in a Friday speech.

I do believe in coincidences, up to a point.

“Tass is the government-funded news agency, so government institutions and public agencies use Tass content for distribution to other Russian and foreign media on a routine basis with Tass credit and Tass permission”, Leifer says.

The embarrassment was compounded by the presence of Kislyak, who is at the center of a series of questions about contacts between Trump’s inner circle and the Russian government.

Lavrov is the highest-ranking Russian official to visit Washington since Trump came to power in January, and earned a rare invitation to the Oval Office for a head-to-head.

Jeff Mason, the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, responded to the president’s tweets, saying that the White House briefings and press conferences “conducted in full view of our republic’s citizens, is clearly in line with the spirit of the First Amendment”. “I don’t have any evidence of collusion or a crime but the Federal Bureau of Investigation needs to keep looking and do their job”, said Senator Lindsey Graham, (R) SC.

Kislyak is a key figure in the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 USA election and whether there was any collusion with Team Trump.

The letter, written by attorneys Sheri Dillon and William Nelson from the law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, simultaneously leaves open the possibility of other Russian ties while attempting to dismiss them. He said the real reason Trump fired Comey was because the FBI’s investigation into the matter was escalating.

“All I said was a brief hello and there may have been general conversations with a lot of people in the room where things may have been discussed – I have no recollection”.

Trump apparently thinks this means something, but of course it does not. “You don’t talk about investigations, let the DOJ do that”. Their review also notably takes into account only Trump’s returns from the past 10 years, leaving open questions about whether there were financial dealings with Russian Federation in earlier years.

He mentioned worrisome “bits and pieces” of information coming out about conversations between various Trump campaign advisers and Russian officials in 2016. Trump could settle the question by fully disclosing his finances, including his tax returns.