Some of these Donald Trump’s The advisers are meeting foreign officials on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, where US allies are trying to understand what a Trump victory would mean for the United States. November 5th election What will this mean for American foreign policy?
It was not clear who the advisers had met or planned to meet, nor was it clear what they planned to discuss. Trump, the Republican nominee for president, held office from 2017 to 2021.
His foreign policy advisers have generally said they are wary of promoting specific policies in private conversations, nor engaging in any conversations that could be seen as undermining the administration of Democratic President Joe Biden.
A firm founded by Robert O’Brien, Trump’s fourth and final national security adviser, hosted a reception for high-ranking foreign diplomats in midtown Manhattan on Monday night, according to a person with knowledge of the event.
Mike Pompeo, who served as CIA director and secretary of state under Trump, was scheduled to host a separate reception on Tuesday night, two people familiar with the event said. Former Trump administration ambassadors are also expected to attend the event, one of the people said.
The campaign did not comment on meetings between foreign officials and Trump advisers in response to a request for comment. A representative for Pompeo did not respond to a request for comment.
Opinion polls show that Vice President Kamala HarrisThe Democratic nominee is locked in a tight race with Trump, with battleground states likely to determine the winner, however, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Harris has taken a 7 percentage point lead nationwide,
A former Trump national security adviser who requested anonymity to discuss private conversations said he was receiving as many as six meeting requests a day from foreign officials, many of them from Central and Eastern Europe.
Trump has seen himself relatively rarely interact with foreign leaders in recent weeks. According to two people familiar with these conversations, some advisers have urged him to decline some meetings so he can focus on campaigning and avoid any unnecessary negative headlines in the final days of the election.
The former president had planned to meet Polish President Andrzej Duda at a Polish-American Catholic shrine north of Philadelphia over the weekend, but Trump’s campaign canceled the joint appearance.
During his election campaign last week, Trump said He plans to meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi And while he will “possibly” meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this week, such meetings have not yet taken place.
On Monday evening, Trump said at a rally in Pennsylvania that Zelensky wants Democrats to win the upcoming election.
Washington and its allies have provided Ukraine with a billion-dollar aid program since the Russian invasion began in February 2022, as well as imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
Trump has repeatedly described U.S. aid to Ukraine as a waste of money and refused to say he wants Ukraine to win, comments that have sparked concern in central and eastern Europe. His aides argue he has the wherewithal to negotiate a peace deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In a statement, the Trump campaign referred Reuters to an earlier statement by Trump in which he said he was “the only person who can stop a war (in Ukraine).”