Designer View
of Trump Tower in Moscow
Review
from Raw Story (February
5, 2019):
Massive document dump shows how the Trump Organization
sought Putin’s help to build Moscow tower, and how Putin would help Trump win the
election
A newly
released trove of documents show how Trump’s praise for
Russian president Vladimir Putin lined up with behind-the-scenes efforts by his
family and associates to build a high rise in Moscow.
Trump as we
know by now frequently praised Putin while campaigning for president in 2016
(and still does BTW), and he in nearly every single speech insists he had no
business ties to Russia — all while his attorney Michael Cohen (“The Fixer”) and
others on the Trump Organization payroll negotiated the Moscow Trump Tower development
deal, as reported
on by Buzz Feed News.
Buzz Feed published a cache of internal Trump
Organization documents that shows how detailed and extensive negotiations
matched up with developments in Trump’s presidential campaign as listed in this
timeline that follows:
1. During
October 2015: Negotiations were hot and heavy when Cohen and Trump
associate Felix Sater were working to secure a deal to build the 100-story
tower — and to forge a closer relationship with Russia and its president.
2. October
12, 2015: Sater email to Cohen: “All
we need is Putin on board and we are golden, meeting with Putin and top deputy
is tentatively set for the 14th. See buddy I can not only get Ivanka
to spin in Putins Kremlin office chair on 30 minutes notice, I can also get a
full meeting.”
3. October
17, 2015: Trump tweeted out a Washington Examiner story with the headline: “Putin loves Donald Trump” and that was just
days after receiving a signed letter of intent from a Moscow developer to build
the tower.
4. October
28, 2015: The date of the letter of intent to build. The Trump Organization
had made several edits to that letter over the previous 11 days (i.e., from October 17 when Trump tweeted the
Wash Examiner), and according to documents published by Buzz Feed. The final
letter was signed by Trump and Russian developer Andrey Rozov on the 28th.
5. November
3, 2015: Sater email to Cohen: “Michael
my next steps are very sensitive with Putin’s very very close people, we can
pull this off. Michael let’s go. 2 boys from Brooklyn getting a USA president
elected.”
6. That same
day another Sater email to Cohen: “Putin
gets on stage with Donald for a ribbon cutting for Trump Moscow, and Donald
owns the republican (sic) nomination. And possibly beats Hillary and our boy is
in. I’ll take the Ambassadorship to
the Bahamas so I can fish and dive,
and be a hero to my kids. That my
friend is the home run that I want out of this.”
7. October 2015 (final weeks): Sater and
Cohen began arguing about the length of the negotiations. Cohen, representing
the Trump Organization, apparently grew impatient and tried to take matters
into his own hands by emailing Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov’s office.
(Note: That according to the criminal information filed against Cohen by S/C Robert
Mueller).
8. January
2016: Cohen continued trying to reach Peskov during the month of January
2016, and eventually spoke to the Kremlin official’s assistant.
9.
Meanwhile, Trump continued to boast to campaign crowds that Putin had praised
him as a “genius” (all the while Cohen
and Sater were making plans to visit Russia with their boss).
10. February 2016: Trump told a rallies: “I think I’d have a good relationship with
Putin, who knows. If we got along with Russia, that would be sort of nice,
wouldn’t it?”
11. June 9, 2016: Donald Trump Jr., Jared
Kushner, and Paul Manafort met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya after she promised damaging campaign
information on Hillary Clinton.
12. That same day: Sater texted Cohen about
preparations for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum saying: “I am filing out the badges for the St. Pete
economic forum for you. Putin is there on the 17th very strong chance you will
meet him as well.”
13. June 14, 2016: Those forum plans were
scuttled which was on the same day that the
Washington Post reported that Russian government hackers had penetrated the DNC.
Cohen then asked Sater to meet him in the atrium of Trump Tower in New York and
told him the Moscow deal was off.
My 2 cents: Cohen closed the Moscow Trump Tower
we suppose due to too much heat generated by the Washington Post story which he
probably relays to Sater as the reason. Well, no shït, Sherlock!!!
FYI: Related
Washington Post Timeline also from here – a good read to supplement
that posted above.
The B/L: Trump
and Putin both hated Hillary. Trump had deals for Putin. Putin had means and dirt
from the DNC, Hillary, and John Podesta to help Trump win.
That Triade was set:
Trump-Putin-Big Money.
Cohen’s goals:
To please Trump and make millions for himself.
Sater’s goals: Please Putin and get Ambassador Position (see item #6 above).
How Mueller presents it is the key that that could open and close the door
to Trump’s prison cell.
Stay tuned. Thanks for stopping by.
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