G20/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “White House aides had hoped that the G-20 summit would be an opportunity for President Donald Trump to showcase his deal-making skills. Now, they’re worried that special counsel Robert Mueller’s latest bombshell could overshadow his latest tour on the world stage. And some think that’s just the way Mueller wanted it. In a Thursday [11-29-18] statement, Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, called it ‘hardly coincidental’ that Mueller made a dramatic legal move ‘just as the President is leaving for a meeting with world leaders,’ adding that the chief Russia investigator ‘did the very same thing as the President was leaving for a world summit in Helsinki.’ Giuliani was referring to Mueller’s indictment of 12 Russian military officials for 2016 email hacks just days before Trump met with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Finland this past summer, casting a pall over the Putin meeting and forcing Trump to confront pointed questions about the Russian’s culpability.”
–Andrew Restuccia and Gabby Orr, “Mueller stalks Trump abroad — again,” Politico, November 29, 2018 6:37 pm