Trump Tower Moscow bombshell #3: Donald Trump was trying to work with Vladimir Putin himself during election
When the Washington Post reported last night that Donald Trump was trying to build Trump Tower Moscow during the election, I said it was just a teaser story. When the New York Times reported today that Trump’s business partner had promised building the tower would get Trump elected, I said there was still another shoe to drop. I love it when these things fall into place, because Bombshell #3 just arrived – and it’s an earth shaking one.
Based on the WaPo’s followup story this afternoon, we now know that Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen reached out to Vladimir Putin through his spokesman Dmitry Peskov during the election to ask for help with getting Trump Tower Moscow built (link). Cohen would never have done something like this without Trump’s approval. So now we know that Donald Trump asked for Putin’s help in getting Trump Tower Moscow built during the election. This shatters every inch of Trump’s version of the story.
We now know that Donald Trump was lying when he claimed he’s never done business with Russia. We also know he was lying when he said he’s not familiar with Felix Sater, the Russian mafia figure who was collaborating with Michael Cohen on the Trump Tower Moscow deal. And now we know specifically why Trump was taking so many pro-Russia and pro-Putin positions during the election: he was trying to use it to convince Putin to sign off on the business deal. The fallout from this will be swift and spectacular.
Michael Cohen has already hired an attorney of his own. Now we look to see if he flips on Donald Trump in order to avoid taking the fall. The same goes for Sater, who has already worked as an FBI informant in the past. We’re about to see Special Counsel Robert Mueller bring fire down on them both, in order to get to Trump himself. And there’s clearly another bombshell coming in this Trump Tower Moscow story.
