Big article by Buzzfeed: The definitive story on Trump Moscow.

[MelissaB]

The Definitive Story Of How Trump’s Team Worked The Trump Moscow Deal During The Campaign

On the day of the third Republican presidential debate, Trump personally signed the letter of intent.

All through the hot summer campaign of 2016, as Donald Trump and his aides dismissed talk of unseemly ties to Moscow, two of his key business partners were working furiously on a secret track: negotiations to build what would have been the tallest building in Europe and an icon of the Trump empire — the Trump World Tower Moscow.

Talks to construct the 100-story building continued even as the presidential candidate alternately bragged about his relationship with Vladimir Putin and rejected suggestions of Russian influence, and as Russian agents worked to sway US public opinion on Trump’s behalf.

While fragments of the Trump Moscow venture have trickled out — most recently in a report last night by Yahoo News — this is the definitive story of the Moscow tower, told from a trove of emails, text messages, congressional testimony, architectural renderings, and other documents obtained exclusively by BuzzFeed News, as well as interviews with key players and investigators. The documents reveal a detailed and plausible plan, well-connected Russian counterparts, and an effort that extended from spearfishing with a Russian developer on a private island to planning for a mid-campaign trip to Moscow for the presidential candidate himself.

The tower — a sheer, glass-encased obelisk situated on a river — would have soared above every other building in Moscow, the architectural drawings show. And the sharply angled skyscraper would have climaxed in a diamond-shaped pinnacle emblazoned with the word “Trump,” putting his name atop the continent’s tallest structure.

More: https://www.buzzfeed.com/anthonycormier/trump-moscow-micheal-cohen-felix-sater-campaign?utm_term=.ryq5K6P3o#.amDEr2mGa

Benjamin Wittes

This is, assuming it’s true, a holy shit story: While Trump was preparing for the Republican convention in spring 2016, Michael Cohen was still negotiating Trump Tower Moscow and was working on a Trump-Putin meeting to take place after the convention to finalize the deal.

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In addition, the Trump Organization was negotiating on the project with a Russian spy.

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Read the whole thing.

Read the whole thing.

[MelissaB]

1. Cohen persuaded Sater not to contest Trump's claim in a deposition, and later to AP reporters, that

Cohen persuaded Sater not to contest Trump’s claim in a deposition, and later to AP reporters, that he didn’t know Sater well.

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[manor321]

2. Big Boomer!

Boom boom boom!

[niyad]

3. k and r

[spanone]

4. K&R...

[smirkymonkey]

5. NO COLLUSION! NO COLLUSION!

[malaise]

10. Just fugging treason

bangs head

Lock him up!

[AwakeAtLast]

13. And Espionage

[BobTheSubgenius]

14. That is HARSH!!!

Wonderfully so.

It's amazing to me that this nothing burger seems to have such a lot of chew to it. It's still a shit sandwich, but it's got a lot more heft than a nothing burger.

[underpants]

6. 👀 reading later

[spanone]

7. how many times has he lied that he knows nothing about russia?

Liar-in-Chief

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. A monument to his ego. What better way for Putin to ensnare him than that?

[BobTheSubgenius]

15. And with a side of venality.

Like getting something served to you that looks delectable, but then you find out it's also got crunch!!! A total one-two punch.

[Uncle Joe]

9. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Melissa

[MontanaMama]

11. Kickety kick kick

kick! Get this out there.

[trueblue2007]

12. TRUMP THE CROOK