Trump Tower Moscow
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I'm not sure why this is getting play today. Because it's in the court docs? We knew this in September 2017.
Seriously. *gasp*, Mueller rehashes something from a year ago! It's deja vu all over again.
Ol Boomer in Chief's Twitter tantrums earlier this week make a bit more sense. Ho hum. More witches.
Not new news, certainly not big news. Even if you knew at the time it was happening, you wouldn't have been concerned. Afterall, Hillbag had it in the illary.
read the plea agreement
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/29/politics/michael-cohen-plea-agreement/index.html
Skimmed it, nothing earth shattering. He already had the cooperation agreement from the prior agreement.
Trump calls Michael Cohen 'a weak person' after ex-lawyer claims he knew about Russia deal – live | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2018/nov/29/us-politics-michael-cohen-live-updates
Document: Michael Cohen Plea Documents in Mueller Probe - Lawfare
https://www.lawfareblog.com/document-michael-cohen-plea-documents-mueller-probe
https://www.lawfareblog.com/document-michael-cohen-plea-documents-mueller-probe
He basically called Don Junior a liar and blew up the laughable HSPCI report that Trumpers like to crow about. Earth shattering is open for debate, but I don't think it's nothing. We're now going to have a President pardon his son.
Connect the dots for me. Cohen lied to Congress, and they prosecuted. I skimmed his plea agreement, and read the attached documentation. There is not a thing there that implicates Trump in any kind of misgiving. This information was known, and published, by CNN a week after he sent the letter to Congress in September 2017.
It's another big fat nothingburger.
That's what happens when you elect a bunch of low-life criminals to the WH. It's worse than I ever thought it could be.
Lol, who cares about the rubes,
Oh there is a big fat nothing burger alright, and you deny reality and defend him every day, he is a good look on his tribe! lol.
The HSPCI report that states this? I bolded the one false statement due to his false testimony.
{U) When the project started proceeding too slov..r[y for the Trump Organlzation,45 Cohen and .. began to exchange acrimonious text messages. 46 As part of those text messages-told Cohen that President Putin's people were backing the deal, including "this is thru Putins [sicJ administration, and nothing gets done there without approval from the top," as well as meetings in Russia with "Ministers" and "Putins (sic] top administration people.":] 1111111 also mentioned Dmitry Peskov (President Putin's spokesman) would "most likely" be included. 48 {U} Cohen thus attempted to reach out to members of the Russian government in an attempt to make the project proceed, but apparently did not have any direct points of contact. for example, Cohen sent an email to a general press mailbox at the Kremlin in an effort to reach Peskov.4 n Cohen's message notes that he has been working with a local partner to build a Trump Tower in Moscow and that communications have stalled with the local partner.50 The email further seeks contact with Peskov so they may " discuss the specifics as well as arrange meetings with the appropriate individuals." Based on the documents produced to the Committee, it does not appear Cohen ever received a response from anyone affiliated with the Russian government.
Testimony likewise made clear that neither Presldent Putin nor any element of the Russian government was actually directly involved in the project. For instance, in one exchange,_____ testified he was offering the Trump Organization access to one of-acquaintances. This acquaintance was an acquaintance of someone else who is "partners on a real estate development with a friend of Putin. ______ testified that he was unaware of "any direct meetings with any [Russian) government officials" in connection with the Trump Tower Moscow. In addition, neither candidate Trump nor Cohen traveled to Russia in support of the deal.54
(U) ... was unequivocal in his testimony that none of the Russians affiliated with the Trump Tower Moscow. project had any communications with him in which he w{as] asked to do something on behalf of the Russian government that [he] knew was on behalf of the Russian Government' with respect to the U.S. election.S!, None of those communications "were intended for - to take action to have a communication with or take some action to influence the 2016 Presidential election."":.6 The Committee therefore assesses that _____ was attempting to leverage political contacts for business purposes, rather than the other way around.
{U} It appears the Trump Tower Moscow project failed in January 2016.
Trump Jr. testified that, as of early June 2016. he believed the Trump Tower Moscow project was dormant.53 The project failed because "[t]he due diligence did not come through and the Trump Organization's representative "lost confidence in the licensee, and {he] abandoned the project."59 In fact, the Trump Organization did not have a confirmed site, so the deal never reached the point where the company was discussing financing arrangements for the project. The Committee determined that the Trump Tower Moscow project did not progress beyond an early developmental phase, and that this potential licensing deal was not related to the Trump campaign.61
lol, I thought it was just noise? you taking it seriously now bro? send this to Rudy, Mueller already knows everything.
That's the one. The one Cohen now admits he lied in to make it look like the deal was dead in January of 2016. Thanks!
And it implicates Junior exactly how?
"Trump Jr. testified that, as of early June 2016. he believed the Trump Tower Moscow project was dormant."
Trump Jr testified he knew next to nothing about the deal. Thought it was done in 2015. Didn't know Cohen had reached out to the Kremlin. In the end, it doesn't really matter what we 2 legal scholars think. Time will tell.
