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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBuzzFeed: Trump Organization Planned To Give Vladimir Putin The $50 Million Penthouse In Trump Tower
Anthony Cormier BuzzFeed News Reporter
Jason Leopold BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on November 29, 2018, at 5:53 p.m. ET
President Donald Trumps company planned to give a $50 million penthouse at Trump Tower Moscow to Russian President Vladimir Putin as the company negotiated the luxury real estate development during the 2016 campaign, according to four people, one of them the originator of the plan.
Two US law enforcement officials told BuzzFeed News that Michael Cohen, Trumps personal lawyer at the time, discussed the idea with a representative of Dmitry Peskov, Putins press secretary.
The Trump Tower Moscow plan is at the heart of a new plea agreement by Cohen, who led the negotiations to bring a gleaming, 100-story building to the Russian capital. Cohen acknowledged in court that he lied to Congress about the plan in order to protect Trump and his presidential campaign.
The revelation that representatives of the Trump Organization planned to forge direct financial links with the leader of a hostile nation at the height of the campaign raises fresh questions about President Trump's relationship with the Kremlin. The plan never went anywhere because the tower deal ultimately fizzled, and it is not clear whether Trump knew of the intention to give away the penthouse. But Cohen said in court documents that he regularly briefed Trump and his family on the Moscow negotiations.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/anthonycormier/the-trump-organization-planned-to-give-vladimir-putin-the?bftwnews=&utm_term=4ldqpgc&ref=hpsplash
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,467 posts)What a day!
BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,467 posts)I can't read 'em as fast as they're coming in.
Not that I'm complaining!
BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)and this came from Ari's show on MSNBC.
OnDoutside
(19,974 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)only keep info like this "in the family" and Ghouliani is only a more recent addition to the gang and probably didn't know all the details of the crap that Cohen was doing (although he has known Drumpf for years in NYC).
Celerity
(43,579 posts)OnDoutside
(19,974 posts)Trump ? They know what he has.
BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)and will lie from "within" because only the strongest survive.
Agreement? Shmagreement!
OnDoutside
(19,974 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)OnDoutside
(19,974 posts)Cha
(297,765 posts)from these idiotic, greed-mongering traitors. Too bad it fizzled.
Mahalo, BRDS
BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)Seems the word "bribe" (that penthouse) was getting thrown around by pundits in regards to this story.
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)The texts between Michael Cohen and Felix Sater plus the storyline Putin was getting a $50 mil penthouse ...
No wonder there are reports of Trump looking ill ... on top of everything else that happened today
BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)Ivanka was in the mix too...
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,467 posts)I want the hypocrisy of Birther Barbie on the front page of all the big newspapers.
BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,467 posts)I stole "Birther Barbie" from Cha.
As for Ivanka's role in the $50 million penthouse, I hope the emails lead to her on the hot seat.
BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,467 posts)It says that Cohen "regularly briefed Trump and his family on the Moscow negotiations". It may have been Sater's grand idea, but Ivanka's s'posed to be the business brains in the crime family.
Many people are saying that. I'm not saying it, but many people are. Lock her up!
BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)sheshe2
(83,940 posts)Yikes
BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)Jarqui
(10,130 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)Jarqui
(10,130 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I would love to be a fly on the wall on the room he is in.
BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)he (or someone using his account) was tweeting about books that called him a genius.
BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)per CNN (Erin Burnett).
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He must be losing it "bigly".
BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)his last tweet was about asking Romney's daughter to continue as RNC chair for 2020.
Cha
(297,765 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)I know she is going to be on this tonight assuming more doesn't come out before she comes on the air.
SunSeeker
(51,734 posts)Cha
(297,765 posts)Mahalo, SunSeeker~
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)I doubt he likes to live up to high in the sky.
I remember an article years back about all those apts being blown up. Hmmm, wonder if they caught the perp on that one?
BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)was more to get other oligarchs in there at 5 times that cost, with the expectation that they would buy in so they could be "closer to Putin".
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,273 posts)What a deal!
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)It just keeps getting better and better. And we're to believe Drumpf wouldn't have been informed by his personal attorney that they were giving away a 50 MILLION PENTHOUSE. Right-o!