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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:35 AM Jan 2019

Ivanka Trump issues carefully worded denial of BuzzFeed report on Trump Tower Moscow

Source: RawStory



TRAVIS GETTYS
18 JAN 2019 AT 09:27 ET

Ivanka Trump has denied playing a significant role in negotiations of a possible Trump Tower in Moscow in response to a BuzzFeed report about her father allegedly directing attorney Michael Cohen to commit perjury.

The president’s daughter and senior adviser issued a statement through a spokesperson denying the website’s reporting about her involvement in the project, which Cohen has said remained under negotiation for much longer than he had told Congress.

“Ms. Trump did not know about this proposal until after a non-binding letter of intent had been signed, never talked to anyone outside the organization about the proposal, never visited the projected project site and was only minimally involved,” the spokesperson said in a statement.

The website reported that Cohen told special counsel Robert Mueller that he provided details about the Moscow project to the president and his eldest two children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr.

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Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/ivanka-trump-issues-carefully-worded-denial-buzzfeed-report-trump-tower-moscow/

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Ivanka Trump issues carefully worded denial of BuzzFeed report on Trump Tower Moscow (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2019 OP
I say WOW!!! PeeJ52 Jan 2019 #1
"minimally involved" is like Donny himself admitting to "lightly looking" NewJeffCT Jan 2019 #10
Or tazkcmo Jan 2019 #54
and, remember one of Trump's lawyers NewJeffCT Jan 2019 #62
The defense arguments begin for the Princess. She's sufficiently lawyered up. Eyeball_Kid Jan 2019 #53
It's Only A Matter Of Time... smb Jan 2019 #69
She can lie to the press as much as she wants but in an investigation she best be a little more elmac Jan 2019 #59
Congress clear your schedule Corgigal Jan 2019 #2
A non-denial denial? C_U_L8R Jan 2019 #3
You think? Botany Jan 2019 #21
Yeah, right. Scarsdale Jan 2019 #47
Note the qualifying language..."significantly" in the first sentence. Crutchez_CuiBono Jan 2019 #27
Covering ass. . . . Iliyah Jan 2019 #4
You GD liar. Crutchez_CuiBono Jan 2019 #5
Hmm jumping dads titanic Watchfoxheadexplodes Jan 2019 #6
Doesn't read like a "denial" to me. Mrs. Overall Jan 2019 #7
Exactly... PeeJ52 Jan 2019 #14
Didn't she sit on Putin's chair for 1/2 hour? Perseus Jan 2019 #8
Here it is... Perseus Jan 2019 #9
and was "not that familiar with Sater" flying_wahini Jan 2019 #56
The rope chair...from the ceiling. Like we saw in Vietnam. Crutchez_CuiBono Jan 2019 #29
Trump raised her to be this. colorado_ufo Jan 2019 #64
At some point even "little girls" have to start making their own decisions and accept Crutchez_CuiBono Jan 2019 #70
Princess needs a Pardon. PubliusEnigma Jan 2019 #11
Which seems to be tanking all those around the prez.. Basement Beat Jan 2019 #16
I still wonder why she visited Putin's girlfriend yellerpup Jan 2019 #12
It was in Croatia bigworld Jan 2019 #40
Thanks! yellerpup Jan 2019 #41
Didn't that woman (Murdoch's ex wife) BigmanPigman Jan 2019 #66
I don't really know. yellerpup Jan 2019 #67
"...only minimally involved," - up to her eyeballs in it. jpak Jan 2019 #13
so 'NO CONTACT' to 'Minimal involvment' Obvious85 Jan 2019 #15
She sounds like her daddy--evolving evolving evolving evolving "explanations" riversedge Jan 2019 #22
Very good way of describing it. Crutchez_CuiBono Jan 2019 #31
Never talked to anyone outside of the organization about the proposal Freethinker65 Jan 2019 #17
Cohen had an office leftynyc Jan 2019 #23
Why the big Denial? McKim Jan 2019 #18
But she did allow her daddy to spout lies--she does say she was minimally involved. The dates riversedge Jan 2019 #19
This is not new. madaboutharry Jan 2019 #20
That's NOT a denial (n/t) leftynyc Jan 2019 #24
Trump doesn't give a shit about his kids, watoos Jan 2019 #25
Oddly..? 2naSalit Jan 2019 #42
Sounds like a bid MontanaMama Jan 2019 #26
She f'ed up big time... SKKY Jan 2019 #28
Ivaka always talks like she's on valuam. dubyadiprecession Jan 2019 #30
It's speculated Crutchez_CuiBono Jan 2019 #34
Poor Jared. dubyadiprecession Jan 2019 #37
jared looks very snowflake feminine...not that anythings wrong w that...ahem, unless Crutchez_CuiBono Jan 2019 #38
My guess? He was milquetoast and feeble enough not to be seen as a threat bigworld Jan 2019 #43
Thanks. Yes milquetoast Crutchez_CuiBono Jan 2019 #44
Trump family couldn't pass up all of those free shovels. safeinOhio Jan 2019 #32
Her getting briefings on the project is in no way illegal, it's not like she testified otherwise ... mr_lebowski Jan 2019 #33
Hehe hehee. Funny how we all have to walk on eggshells w opinions. Tsk tsk. Crutchez_CuiBono Jan 2019 #35
Isn't it nice to know... Eyeball_Kid Jan 2019 #58
Not declaring Daughter IT 'innocent' overall, but I'm hard-pressed to see how her getting info mr_lebowski Jan 2019 #73
All I can say is if the best lawyer they can find is Giuliani, they are all forked Major Nikon Jan 2019 #36
The usual... Wounded Bear Jan 2019 #39
I hope Orange is a color that Ivanka wears well. randr Jan 2019 #45
She's running Kurt V. Jan 2019 #46
Keep her talking. A talking tRump is another Individual-(#) ffr Jan 2019 #48
So, basicly... Volaris Jan 2019 #49
'Gaslit Nation' podcast already reported amcgrath Jan 2019 #50
Ivanka's Dancing with the Tzars Blue Owl Jan 2019 #51
And..."outside the organization" is a try to cover her ass phrase. And, SayItLoud Jan 2019 #52
Prediction: Mueller will indict Mitch McConnell and the GOP leadership. RICO. Eyeball_Kid Jan 2019 #55
There better be some RICO charges against the tRump/GOP crime family nt elmac Jan 2019 #61
Minimally involved or the ring leader you were still involved. Lock her up. blueinredohio Jan 2019 #57
Your Honor, I only held the door open for the bank robbers and helped them start their getaway car. elmac Jan 2019 #60
I detect a scintilla of shame, unlike Daddy's total shamelessness. Marcuse Jan 2019 #63
This is how crime families fall alfredo Jan 2019 #65
Define "Know About" DallasNE Jan 2019 #68
Would love to see her and Junior go down with this ship. Power 2 the People Jan 2019 #71
"...was only minimally involved." Thanks for admitting you were involved, Treason Barbie. nt SunSeeker Jan 2019 #72
 

PeeJ52

(1,588 posts)
1. I say WOW!!!
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:37 AM
Jan 2019

but admits to be "minimally" involved. So, there is a there, there? Hmmmm... Ivanka throws everybody under the bus!!! LOL!!!

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
10. "minimally involved" is like Donny himself admitting to "lightly looking"
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:41 AM
Jan 2019

at building a Trump Tower in Moscow, even though he's been begging to build in Moscow since the late 1980s.

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
62. and, remember one of Trump's lawyers
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 01:02 PM
Jan 2019

said that he had seen Donny's tax returns and he said that Russia was barely in them - "with few exceptions" - which prompted memes of the sinking Titanic with the label "White Star Lines has a perfect safety record - with few exceptions"

(Of course, it doesn't mean that Russia or Trump don't have shell corporations set up in places like Cyprus, the Cayman Islands, etc, to handle money laundering.. part of the problem with prosecuting money laundering and financial fraud is that it's often difficult to trace money through 5-10-15 different organizations in 4, 5 or 6 different countries)

Eyeball_Kid

(7,440 posts)
53. The defense arguments begin for the Princess. She's sufficiently lawyered up.
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 12:05 PM
Jan 2019

So she was minimally involved? That sounds like she was receiving daily briefings from her Russian Asset-father. She's bobbing in the Mueller stew. She'll get eaten.

smb

(3,479 posts)
69. It's Only A Matter Of Time...
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 01:26 PM
Jan 2019

...before the whole family is trying to throw each other under the bus trying to save their own skins.

 

elmac

(4,642 posts)
59. She can lie to the press as much as she wants but in an investigation she best be a little more
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 12:50 PM
Jan 2019

on point.

Botany

(70,657 posts)
21. You think?
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:49 AM
Jan 2019

Ms. Trump did not know about this proposal until after a non-binding letter of intent had been signed, never talked to anyone outside the organization about the proposal, never visited the projected project site and was only minimally involved,”

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
27. Note the qualifying language..."significantly" in the first sentence.
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 11:03 AM
Jan 2019

Pretty soon we'll be called on to care about her family too right? She's guilty and she's trying to minimize her role.

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
5. You GD liar.
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:38 AM
Jan 2019

Thats the problem w liars...you never can rely on what they say. BULL_shit. Her bestie over there was putins girlfriend. Has she illegally crossed into Mexico yet? The whole dump family will be chartering a "casino bus" and making the journey south to Brazil via their version of the "rat line" 2019. Wouldn't that be ironic?

 

PeeJ52

(1,588 posts)
14. Exactly...
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:43 AM
Jan 2019

She admits there was a Trump Tower, it's just SHE didn't have much to do with it. It was only the rest of the family...

 

Perseus

(4,341 posts)
8. Didn't she sit on Putin's chair for 1/2 hour?
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:39 AM
Jan 2019

I still need to understand the significance of that gesture...was Putin also sitting on that chair at the time? What is the significance of it? I am puzzled, but it is one of those actions that Putin wanted in order to move along with the trump tower in Moscow, at least as explained by Felix Sater..."If I can get Ivanka to sit on Putin's chair for 1/2 hour, I can get the Moscow deal through." or something like that.

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
29. The rope chair...from the ceiling. Like we saw in Vietnam.
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 11:05 AM
Jan 2019

She's been using that booty to get what she wants since she was a teenager. She's E-vil. Thinks she's on par w HRC to be a president of the USA. What a delusional little creature.

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
70. At some point even "little girls" have to start making their own decisions and accept
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 01:26 PM
Jan 2019

that they are the captains of their cruise ships. Hopefully, she's in counseling if she needs it. We don't really know what her "dads" contribution is to her evil and the kodachrome isn't flattering in that regard. She was given 10,000 times the benefit of most kids in the USA. On top of it, she can say 'no' now. Her entire adult life has been a gift most people would absorb, and spit back out as some form of gratefulness and kindness to others. She doesn't bc of the moola, and a sense of entitlement, and her evil intent now. Obviously no kids born evil. Regardless of how it happened, she clearly meets the threshold now.
P.S. Keep looking up...They're up there. (UFO's).

yellerpup

(12,254 posts)
12. I still wonder why she visited Putin's girlfriend
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:42 AM
Jan 2019

right after the election. I think it was at a Russian resort.

BigmanPigman

(51,674 posts)
66. Didn't that woman (Murdoch's ex wife)
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 01:18 PM
Jan 2019

say she was not with Vlad's girlfriend and the picture was photo shopped?

Freethinker65

(10,116 posts)
17. Never talked to anyone outside of the organization about the proposal
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:46 AM
Jan 2019

Lots of people inside the organization to talk to about it and get information passed. Wouldn't Cohen have been on payroll with the organization? Did Ivanka use other means of communication other than talking to discuss the proposal (emails, conference calls, etc.). Does she have any knowledge of her daddy asking/coaching Cohen to lie to investigators/legislators?

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
23. Cohen had an office
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:55 AM
Jan 2019

at the trump organization so not only on the payroll. This is why donnie is so much more fearful of Cohen than of anything else. He should also be petrified of what CFO Weisselberg has testified to.

McKim

(2,412 posts)
18. Why the big Denial?
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:46 AM
Jan 2019

The fact that she issued this unusual deniall shows that this issue is touching on something very explosive and damaging to the Trump organization, family and presidency. We are getting close to a sensitive spot here!

riversedge

(70,465 posts)
19. But she did allow her daddy to spout lies--she does say she was minimally involved. The dates
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:46 AM
Jan 2019

of all these comments will be important--a timeline of her and her daddy's comments. And of course-the documents that Buzzfeed and their sources rely on.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
25. Trump doesn't give a shit about his kids,
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 11:00 AM
Jan 2019

I never see him with Barron.

I know that Trump put Ivanka's name on the tower in Baku, Azerbaijan. That is the tower that was built in the bad part of town, with no access road and never opened for business. It did launder some money that went to the Iranian military. Why doesn't someone ask the princess about that tower? Rachel had a segment where Ivanka was doing a promo for the tower. She did it from another hotel and pretended it was from her tower. Daddy Trump seems to protect himself from direct involvement, he doesn't give a shit for princess Ivanka or any of his kids.

2naSalit

(86,968 posts)
42. Oddly..?
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 11:41 AM
Jan 2019

The architectural design of that one looks like female genitalia from certain angles. Rachel pointed that out too in that long segment she did back in early 2017.

SKKY

(11,838 posts)
28. She f'ed up big time...
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 11:05 AM
Jan 2019

...by admitting he was only "minimally involved", she just admitted that he knew about it, which counters everything he has said up to this point. Plus, the buzzfeed article also reported that Special Counsel has e-mails, text messages, and statements from people with first-had knowledge. The Trumps really need to just shut up. Or not.

dubyadiprecession

(5,739 posts)
30. Ivaka always talks like she's on valuam.
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 11:06 AM
Jan 2019

I guess she needs to take something after hearing her daddy, “rawdoged” a pornstar.

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
34. It's speculated
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 11:09 AM
Jan 2019

she talks like that bc in real life she cusses routinely, and although moderately intelligent, parses her words bc she thinks shes going to be the first woman president. Im sure putin whispers that in her ear when he's hitting "it".

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
38. jared looks very snowflake feminine...not that anythings wrong w that...ahem, unless
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 11:28 AM
Jan 2019

you're in the party that encourages hurting that population physically and otherwise. Marrying ivanker was probably a business decision based on her pregnancy?

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
33. Her getting briefings on the project is in no way illegal, it's not like she testified otherwise ...
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 11:08 AM
Jan 2019

She can easily argue that she had no reason to think she was doing anything wrong whatsoever, in fact.

And she'd probably be right, frankly.

This is, IMHO, nothing to get excited about.

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
35. Hehe hehee. Funny how we all have to walk on eggshells w opinions. Tsk tsk.
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 11:12 AM
Jan 2019

I think she wants to admit ..kinda...to something much more "innocent' than the other stuff like...active coordination, back-channel message delivery, planning to defraud the govt. Criminal things MUCH bigger than tangential evidence of guilt...sorta. IMHO of course.
Happy Weekend!!

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
73. Not declaring Daughter IT 'innocent' overall, but I'm hard-pressed to see how her getting info
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 09:46 PM
Jan 2019

on the Trump Moscow project would be illegal on her part?

What law would you think that falls under, if indeed you think law(s) were broken?

randr

(12,418 posts)
45. I hope Orange is a color that Ivanka wears well.
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 11:44 AM
Jan 2019

First to jump ship will rat out the rest of them.
Any ideas for creative popcorn flavors? This could take a while but well worth the final scene.

Volaris

(10,281 posts)
49. So, basicly...
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 11:54 AM
Jan 2019

The opposite of everything in the third paragraph is what actually happened. Got it heh.

SayItLoud

(1,702 posts)
52. And..."outside the organization" is a try to cover her ass phrase. And,
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 12:05 PM
Jan 2019

if the tRUMP grifters think Mueller has the goods they are stupider than criminal. Well, maybe not.

Eyeball_Kid

(7,440 posts)
55. Prediction: Mueller will indict Mitch McConnell and the GOP leadership. RICO.
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 12:11 PM
Jan 2019

Yes, this has everything to do with Princess and her legal defense. McConnell has his thumb in the dike. It all blows when he gets his RICO indictment, and Princess will be found somewhere in the wake of the flood.

 

elmac

(4,642 posts)
60. Your Honor, I only held the door open for the bank robbers and helped them start their getaway car.
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 12:53 PM
Jan 2019
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