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Trump Just Blamed Michael Cohen for the Failure of His Summit with Kim Jong Un

Donald Trump has decided to blame Democrats for the collapse of his negotiations with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last week.

Because of course it had nothing to do with the fact that Trump was completely unprepared for the summit and stayed up all night watching the Michael Cohen hearing.

“For the Democrats to interview in open hearings a convicted liar & fraudster, at the same time as the very important Nuclear Summit with North Korea, is perhaps a new low in American politics and may have contributed to the “walk” Never done when a president is overseas. Shame!” Trump tweeted

Trump is obviously referring to the testimony of his former personal attorney and fixer, which occurred simultaneously with his summit in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Cohen testified before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, where he accused the president of lying to the public about hush money payments and floated the possibility of Trump’s collusion with Moscow.

Cohen was sentenced to prison last year after pleading guilty to financial crimes, campaign finance violations and lying to Congress. He sentence is set to begin on May 6.

While Cohen was on Capitol Hill, Trump was in Hanoi, at his second meeting with Kim.

Trump entered negotiations with the hope of securing a deal that involved North Korea denuclearizing, but talks ended abruptly without any type of deal, which Trump alludes to in his tweet.

Trump told reporters following the summit that the U.S. was not willing to fully lift sanctions in exchange for partial denuclearization, stating that “sometimes you have to walk, and this was just one of those times.”

A North Korean official disputed that characterization of the country’s position adding that Kim “may have lost the will” to engage in future negotiations.

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