![]() ![]() Trump has denied collusion and obstruction. Attorney General William Barr the report on his investigation into whether Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia and whether the Republican president has unlawfully tried to obstruct the probe. The project also coincided with Trump’s positive comments as a candidate about Putin and his questioning of U.S. intelligence agencies, was conducting a hacking and propaganda campaign to boost his candidacy. The project is significant because it shows Trump was chasing a lucrative business deal in Russia at the same time that President Vladimir Putin’s government, according to U.S. If the project was completed, the Company (the Trump Organization) could have received hundreds of millions of dollars from Russian sources in licensing fees and other revenues.” Mueller’s team said in a December 2018 court filing that “the Moscow Project was a lucrative business opportunity that sought, and likely required, the assistance of the Russian government. Further information has come from Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer who was instrumental in the negotiations, in congressional testimony and in his guilty plea to a charge of lying to Congress about the project. Trump has defended negotiations for the building, insisting that “there would have been nothing wrong” if his company had gone forward with the project.The special counsel has revealed in court filings numerous details about the project, which never came to fruition. And, of course, at the same time, Trump the candidate was talking about easing economic sanctions on Russia and generally taking a more favorable foreign policy stance toward Russia. Thus, Trump’s business entanglements with Russia coincided with Russia’s efforts to interfere in the presidential election and to undermine Hilary Clinton. attorney Mimi Rocah and former deputy assistant attorney general Harry Litman recently wrote, keeping the negotiations secret during the campaign “may suggest a criminal conspiracy”:Ĭohen’s guilty plea indicates that Trump and his representatives were actively negotiating with the Kremlin over the planned Trump Tower in Moscow throughout the campaign, including “as late as June 2016” - in other words after Trump became the presumptive Republican Party nominee in May of 2016. It’s no mystery why Trump and his allies are trying to erase his role in the negotiations for the Moscow tower. ![]() He later admitted that it continued progressing into that summer, after Trump won the GOP nomination. Most notably, Cohen told Congress that plans for the project fizzled out by January of 2016. The would-be Trump Tower Moscow has been at the center of a slew of lies in the Russia investigation. Trump’s signature on the letter would seem to suggest otherwise. “This was Cohen’s deal,” Giuliani told the Daily Beast last month. In addition to his insistence that no one signed the letter, Giuliani recently argued that the Trump Tower Moscow project was primarily the work of Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer. The proof of Trump’s signature on the letter, which was also signed by the head of the Russian firm that his company was working with, corroborates testimony his son gave to the Senate Judiciary Committee last year, but it runs counter to much of what Giuliani has been saying lately. Xt12u8tRZr- Josh Marshall December 19, 2018 Trump’s signature on the letter directly contradicts a claim made over the weekend by his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who admitted that the letter exists, but said “no one signed it.” After CNN’s report Tuesday, he contradicted himself, telling the New York Daily News that “ of course” Trump signed it.ĬNN obtained a copy of the letter and anchor Chris Cuomo showed it on air, along with video of Trump repeatedly denying that he had anything to do with Russia while he was running for president.Ĭhris Cuomo has the Trump Tower Moscow letter of intent with Trump's signature. In 2016, as the Trump Organization was in negotiations to build Trump Tower Moscow, Donald Trump signed a letter of intent to move forward with the project, CNN reported Tuesday night. President Trump was more involved in the Trump Tower Moscow project than he let on. ![]()
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