![]() Trump answered saying he "would get along very well with Putin" and volunteered that "we don't need the sanctions." The person Trump called upon was none other than admitted Russian agent Mariia Butina. The Trump Tower meeting was intended to let Trump know that ending sanctions on Russia was the quid pro quo expected for Russian help during the election.Īt a campaign event, Trump called on a questioner in the audience who asked a vague question about U.S. CNN’s Chris Cuomo obtained a copy of the signed letter of intent that set the stage for negotiations for Trump condominiums, a hotel and commercial property in the heart of Moscow. ![]() Once Trump announced his run for the presidency, Putin saw an opportunity to use Trump for a pet project - getting rid of the sanctions imposed on Russian oligarchs by the Magnitsky Act. By making Trump financially beholden to them and involving Trump in a criminal enterprise, the Russians had all they needed to blackmail Trump. Russian intelligence came to his financial rescue by using his high-end luxury real estate as a vehicle for laundering dirty money from Russian oligarchs. ![]() ![]() Negotiate in good faith? Trump? What a laugh.Actually, the Russians didn't care if Trump was negotiating in good faith - they had spent years cultivating Trump as Putin's stooge.Īfter a series of bankruptcies and financial reverses in the 1980s and 90s, Trump was down on his luck no American bank would loan him money. Trump's polywagger clown, Rudy Giuliani has made a comedic effort to dismiss the letter of intent as "bull s.t". economic sanctions against Russia were lifted - something that became a major goal of the Trump's presidency that was frequently frustrated by Congress. In the case of Trump Tower Moscow, the project could not go forward until U.S. sanctions against Russia would have to be lifted.Īlthough an LOI is not a binding contract to build, it is a binding agreement to negotiate in good faith towards a binding contract. There was one catch before the deal could go through - U.S. The lucrative deal provided for payments to Trump of up to one billion dollars annually. Under the LOI, a hotel would be constructed in Moscow containing 250 first class luxury residential condominiums and 150 hotel rooms. ![]() election that Russia was attempting to sway, he never signed anything official.On October 28, 2015, while Donald Trump was denying that he did any business in Russia, he had entered into a letter of intent (LOI) with Russian real estate developer Andrey Rosov. Then last week, after reportedly being put in a media time-out, Giuliani reemerged to tell the Daily Beast of his client’s apparent wrongdoing: “nobody got killed, nobody got robbed” in the course of the hush payments, ergo “this was not a big crime.” All of which was merely a prelude to ole Rud’s performance on Sunday, when during a chat with George Stephanopoulos, he said that 1) Trump lies all the time (but not under oath, so it’s fine), and 2) collusion is not a crime, and even if Trump had colluded with Russia, he did so before November 2016.Īlso on Sunday, the world’s great lawyer told CNN’s Dana Bash that while Trump may have been in informal talks to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, in the middle of a U.S. In July, as reports swirled that Robert Mueller would be examining Trump’s tweets for evidence of obstruction of justice, the former mayor of New York’s defense was not, say, Donald Trump has not and will never obstruct justice, but rather, Donald Trump would never commit a crime. To rewind for a moment: in May, shortly after joining Trump’s legal team, Giuliani appeared on TV and said that, of course, Trump had known about the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels, for which he reimbursed Cohen, and that it wasn’t a big deal at all. Remember when Donald Trump tried his hand at humor back in August, tweeting, “If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain the services of Michael Cohen!” likely because the president’s former porno fixer had just struck a plea deal with federal prosecutors and would likely be turning over reams of information about his ex-boss? We ask because it feels like we are now mere weeks-if not days!-away from the president tweeting something similar about his current legal representation, Rudy Giuliani, who just can’t seem to stop implicating his client in federal crimes. ![]()
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