Trump had brief encounter with Giuliani on Saturday
President Trump briefly met with his attorney Rudy Giuliani on Saturday as Giuliani faces a federal investigation over possible campaign finance violations, Bloomberg News reported.
The two men met Saturday night at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach, Fla., where Trump spent the weekend ahead of this week’s Christmas holiday. It was unclear what the two men discussed, according to Bloomberg. The White House did not immediately return a request for comment from The Hill.
A communications aide to Giuliani, Christianné Allen, tweeted a picture of herself next to a smiling Trump on Sunday morning, hours after the meeting occurred.
An enchanting evening celebrating the Christmas season & all of our winning! @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/5PGi90HPOn
— Christianné L Allen (@Christianne_L_A) December 22, 2019
Giuliani also remains under investigation for possibly failing to register as a foreign agent, the same charge that ensnared other members of Trump’s inner circle, including Paul Manafort, his former campaign chairman.
The former New York City mayor has been at the center of the House’s impeachment inquiry into Trump due to his efforts in Ukraine to uncover possibly damaging information on former Vice President Joe Biden, a top contender for the Democratic Party’s 2020 nomination.
Trump’s and Giuliani’s efforts to convince Ukrainian officials, including the country’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to open criminal investigations into Biden ahead of the 2020 election have been characterized by critics as an attempt to solicit foreign interference in a U.S. election.
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