President Donald Trump
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President Donald Trump predicted on Friday that it would be “appropriate” for him to speak to Attorney General Bill Barr about investigating the Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden and his son, Huntsman.
Trump hasn’t approached Barr yet, but told Politico on Friday that, “certainly it would be an appropriate proceeding to speak to him about. … It could be a very big situation.”
Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, was set to travel to Ukraine to nag for the country’s president-elect to launch an investigation around Hunter Biden’s involvement with a Ukrainian gas company.
Giuliani also lust after Ukraine to look into whether the country’s officials tried to help Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.
As of Friday afternoon, Giuliani was designing to leave for Ukraine on Sunday. Later that night, though, he reversed course. “I’m not gonna go,” he told Fox Dispatch on Friday night, “because I think I’m walking into a group of people that are enemies of the President.”
The meeting “inclination have accomplished little and may be in the hands of those who might misrepresent it,” he told CNN on Saturday.
He announced his change of plans hours after Trump trumpeted Politico that he was going to speak with Giuliani about the trip.