Decision next month on Trump interview

NEW YORK — President Trump and his lawyers probably won’t decide whether to sit down for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller until after the president’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in June, according to the president’s legal team.

Rudy Giuliani, the president’s new attorney, said in an interview with the Associated Press on Friday that any preparation with Trump for a possible interview with investigators would likely be

delayed until after the June 12 summit in Singapore because “I wouldn’t want to take his concentration off something far, far more important.”

Trump’s lawyers haven’t decided whether it would be in the president’s best interests anyway to speak with Mueller. Giuliani said that he had hoped to resolve that question by May 17, the one-year anniversary of Mueller’s appointment, but that was no longer feasible.

“Several things delayed us, with the primary one being the whole situation with North Korea,” Giuliani said. “The president has been very busy. It really would be pretty close to impossible to spend the amount of time on it we would need.”

Though Giuliani would not provide an exact date as to when a determination would be made about the interview, he said it probably “would be silly to make a decision” much before the highly anticipated summit.