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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Putin gets on stage for ribbon-cutting of Trump Tower Moscow, Donald owns the GOP nomination"
Laura Rozen @lrozen 25m25 minutes agoSater:I think I can get Putin to say that at the Trump Moscow press conference. If he says it we own this election..We can own this election
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Ben Smith @BuzzFeedBen 43m43 minutes ago
This story is amazing https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azeenghorayshi/trump-tower-moscow-the-secret-files-cohen-sater-putin
____When Michael Cohen, the presidents former lawyer and longtime fixer, testifies before Congress this week, one topic that is likely to be front and center is his work on Trump Moscow, the over-the-top luxury real estate venture he helped spearhead leading up to the election.
The development, which was never built, has already become a focus for special counsel Robert Muellers investigation into potential collusion between Trump and Russia during the 2016 campaign. And when Cohen was convicted last November of lying to Congress, it was over his false testimony that the deal had fizzled in January 2016, well before Trump emerged as the Republican nominee.
BuzzFeed News is today publishing a cache of internal Trump Organization documents that lay bare the secret negotiations that continued long after Cohen claimed the deal had been abandoned. The documents, many of which have been exclusively obtained by BuzzFeed News, reveal that despite Trumps claim that the development was never more than a passing notion the effort to get the tower built was long-running, detail-oriented and directly entwined with the ups and downs of his campaign.
As Trump went from rally to rally, vociferously denying any dealings in Russia, his representatives, Michael Cohen and his associate Felix Sater, worked with Trump Organization lawyers and even Ivanka Trump to push forward negotiations to build a 100-story edifice just miles from the Kremlin. The fixers believed they needed Putins support to pull off the lucrative deal, and they planned to use Trumps public praise for him to help secure it. At the same time, they plotted to persuade Putin to openly declare his support for Trumps candidacy. If he says it we own this election, Sater wrote to Cohen.
read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azeenghorayshi/trump-tower-moscow-the-secret-files-cohen-sater-putin
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"Putin gets on stage for ribbon-cutting of Trump Tower Moscow, Donald owns the GOP nomination" (Original Post)
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Feb 2019
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(659 posts)1. Hmm, well this sounds pretty damning...
bigtree
(86,016 posts)2. I'll say