What Did Ivanka Know About Trump Tower Moscow? It Wasn't "Almost Nothing."

[demmiblue]

Here’s why her story doesn’t hold up.

In an interview aired Friday, Ivanka Trump told ABC News that she knew “literally almost nothing” about her family’s secret pursuit of a deal to build a Trump-branded tower in Moscow during the 2016 campaign. Her claim, however, is contradicted by various sources, including information released by special counsel Robert Mueller and emails cited in media reports, which indicate that the president’s eldest daughter was closely involved with the controversial project.

Much information on Ivanka’s involvement in the deal comes from President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, who was spearheading the Trump Tower-Moscow negotiations. Cohen, who has been sentenced to three years in prison, described his work on the project to prosecutors after he pleaded guilty last year to lying to Congress and campaign finance violations.

In a December memo describing Cohen’s cooperation, Mueller noted that Cohen had said that he “briefed family members” of Trump about the Moscow project. Those briefings clearly included Ivanka. She has acknowledged that in November 2015 she emailed Cohen to suggest he contact Dmitry Klokov, a Russian weightlifter who said he could help secure a meeting for Donald Trump with Russian President Vladimir Putin in order to help facilitate a Trump Tower-Moscow deal. According to Buzzfeed, which first reported these communications, Klokov told Cohen that he could broker a meeting with Trump and Putin to help secure the deal. (In the December memo on Cohen, Mueller said Klokov had offered to help the Trump campaign achieve “synergy on a government level” with Moscow.)

In late 2015, Ivanka also suggested an architect for the Moscow project in an email to Cohen, according to the Associated Press and other outlets. Under the preliminary deal, she received the right to have a spa under her name in the building. CNN last year reported that deal documents show that the Trump Organization, as part of an initial agreement, secured the option to “brand any or all portion of the spa or fitness facilities as ‘The Spa by Ivanka Trump’ or similar brand.” If the spa was named after her, Ivanka or her designee would be given sole power to approve “all interior design elements of the spa or fitness facilities.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/02/what-did-ivanka-know-about-trump-tower-moscow-it-wasnt-almost-nothing/

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. What a LIAR she is.....

Lying is a gene that runs deep in the Trump family.

[DirtEdonE]

13. Like father like all his children

I sometimes wonder what deep psychic multi-generational injury the trump family suffers from. But then I really don't care. Just someone please get these alien menaces out of here. They're like some invaders from another galaxy here to deplete earth and wipe out the human race.

They sure act like they have some other planet to go back to when they're finished destroying this one.

Little wonder Fred checked out so soon. Canny move that, Fred.

[watoos]

2. I keep repeating this,

she is the dirtiest of the kids. She was behind the tower in Baku, Azerbaijan that laundered money to the Iranian military. Her husband is dirtier than dirt.

[maddiemom]

3. But look how much she's done for women!

Why, there's...uh...Well, you can't say she's "shrill," with that ultra finishing school voice.

[llmart]

4. I wondered why she was making the TV circuit once again yesterday.

I want her and her creepy husband to be indicted. She's in this up to her eyeballs.

[Danascot]

5. ... and don't forget Ivanka's involvement with Panama

and Toronto and SoHo and Azerbaijan and Baja ...

[FailureToCommunicate]

6. Trump family. As they say, 'the apple doesn't fall far from the tree'

[chwaliszewski]

7. Or, as I say...

the turd doesn't drop far from the dog.

[lastlib]

11. "The turd doesn't fall far from the asshole"--

my preferred variant in re tRump.

I want to see this whole family/crime ring go down and get frog-marched out of the White House in cuffs and shackles!

[George II]

12. Or the douche doesn't fall far from the bag.

[ROB-ROX]

8. All The Bastards Have To Be Sent To prison

Only after an example is provided will the other RICH BITCHES stop breaking the law. The first step is to tax the bastards. Then send part of the herd to jail. I think society will be much better when the evil ones are punished for their crimes against society........

[pandr32]

9. "We're not talking about Iran. It was Russia!"

She spoke as though it were incredulous--showing no inkling whatsoever that most others do not share her view of a friendly, benign Russia.

[Pepsidog]

10. Daddy's little liar. A chip off the ol dotard for sure.