Secret Files Show How Trump Moscow Talks Unfolded
Secret Files Show How Trump Moscow Talks Unfolded
February 5, 2019 at 10:56 am EST By Taegan Goddard 185 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2019/02/05/secret-files-show-how-trump-moscow-talks-unfolded/
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BuzzFeed News published a cache of internal Trump Organization documents that lay bare the secret negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, long after Michael 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.
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