The President claimed he pulled the plug on the meeting in Argentina over Russian's treatment of the Ukraine. The eyebrow-raising decision came as a federal investigation into his 2016 election campaign's ties to Russia is intensifying. Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying to Congress about a proposed Trump real estate project in Russia. When the two leaders met in Helsinki in July, Trump refused to criticise Putin and drew fire at home. On Thursday, in a dramatic, surprise appearance at a Manhattan courthouse, Cohen admitted his claim that talks to build a Trump Tower in Russia had been scrapped in January 2016.

Source: Daily Mirror November 29, 2018 23:26 UTC