DONALD STIFFS BORIS – READ ALL ABOUT IT – AT 12:32 P.M. ET:  President Trump has scrubbed a meeting with Russian leader Putin over Ukraine.  From Fox: 

President Trump announced he is nixing a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Argentina on Saturday, in the wake of the seizure of Ukrainian ships and crews in the Black Sea by Russia.

"Based on the fact that the ships and sailors have not been returned to Ukraine from Russia, I have decided it would be best for all parties concerned to cancel my previously scheduled meeting in Argentina with President Vladimir Putin,” he tweeted Thursday.

“I look forward to a meaningful Summit again as soon as this situation is resolved!” he added.

Trump had told The Washington Post Tuesday that he may not meet with Putin in Buenos Aires after Russian forces fired on Ukrainian naval vessels and seized their crews as they were sailing through the Kerch Strait, near Crimea.

“I am getting a report on that tonight and that will determine what happens at the meeting,” Trump said. “I’m getting a full report on that tonight. That will be very determinative. Maybe I won’t have the meeting. Maybe I won’t even have the meeting. We’re going to see, depending on what comes out tonight.”

He later told the Post that “I don’t like that aggression.”

COMMENT:  The right move.  There will be speculation that Trump is doing this to counter some of the potentially negative developments in the Mueller adventure, but I have to take him at his word.  He's actually been pretty tough on Putin, despite Democratic claims to the contrary.

November 29,  2018