Trump meets Kim Jong Un in Vietnam, but his eyes are on Michael Cohen in Washington
HANOI, Vietnam - President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un met Wednesday for the second time in eight months, kicking off a two-day summit that could determine whether North Korea is serious about giving up its nuclear weapons despite its failure to move toward denuclearization since the last summit.
Even as the two leaders shared grilled sirloin and chocolate cake at a five-star hotel, the high-wattage summit stagecraft was upstaged by a dramatic congressional hearing in Washington, where Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen denounced the president as "a racist" and a "con man" and said he had skirted or violated banking, tax and campaign finance laws.
The explosive testimony clearly rattled the president in Hanoi. He lashed out at Cohen
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