Last Updated Nov 30, 2018 7:39 AM EST
President Trump is in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday for the G-20 summit, where he, Canada and Mexico are signing their intention to move ahead with their new trade pact.
Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was honored by the Mexican government for his role in what Mr. Trump calls the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. The Mexican government awarded him with the “Order of the Aztec Eagle” for his work on the trade deal. The trade agreement still has to be approved by each nation’s legislatures.
“It’s been well-reviewed. I don’t expect to have much of a problem,” Mr. Trump said of his expectations for the agreement in Congress.
At the ceremony, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called out Mr. Trump by first name, asking him to lower the newly imposed steel and aluminum tariffs.
“Donald, it is all the more reason we need to keep working to remove the steel and aluminum tariffs between our countries,” Trudeau said.
Mr. Trump was scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the summit, but canceled that meeting by tweet on Air Force One, citing Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Russia seized Ukrainian ships and sailors over the weekend, then blamed Ukraine for the incident.
Meanwhile, Mr. Trump has been blasting special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation in the wake of Thursday’s guilty plea by his longtime former lawyer Michael Cohen. Cohen admitted in federal court Thursday that he lied to Congress about a Trump project proposal in Moscow. Mr. Trump says Cohen is a “weak” person who “is lying” to get a lighter sentence.
Cohen’s testimony could prove troublesome for Mr. Trump, who is listed as “Individual 1” in Cohen’s guilty plea. Cohen claimed he made the misstatements to Congress “to be consistent with Individual 1’s political messaging and out of loyalty to Individual 1.”
Mr. Trump spent part of his morning in Buenos Aires fuming over the Moscow proposal and “witch hunt” Russia probe on Twitter.
“Oh, I get it! I am a very good developer, happily living my life, when I see our Country going in the wrong direction (to put it mildly). Against all odds, I decide to run for President & continue to run my business-very legal & very cool, talked about it on the campaign trail…….Lightly looked at doing a building somewhere in Russia,” he tweeted. “Put up zero money, zero guarantees and didn’t do the project. Witch Hunt!”
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