Trump Organization considered giving Putin penthouse in Trump Tower Moscow - Polidicks

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/anthonycormier/the-trump-organization-planned-to-give-vladimir-putin-the President Donald Trump’s 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, Trump’s personal lawyer at the time, discussed the idea with a representative of Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s 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 had 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. BuzzFeed News first reported in May on the secret dealings of Cohen and his business associate Felix Sater with political and business figures in Moscow. The two men worked furiously behind the scenes into the summer of 2016 to get the Moscow deal finished — despite public claims that the development was canned in January, before Trump won the Republican nomination. Sater told BuzzFeed News today that he and Cohen thought giving the Trump Tower’s most luxurious apartment, a $50 million penthouse, to Putin would entice other wealthy buyers to purchase their own. “In Russia, the oligarchs would bend over backwards to live in the same building as Vladimir Putin,” Sater told BuzzFeed News. “My idea was to give a $50 million penthouse to Putin and charge $250 million more for the rest of the units. All the oligarchs would line up to live in the same building as Putin.” A second source confirmed the plan. Trump had personally signed the letter of intent to move forward on the Trump Tower Moscow plan on Oct. 28, 2015, the day of the third Republican primary debate. On Thursday, shortly after news broke about Cohen’s guilty plea, Trump told reporters, “There was a good chance that I wouldn’t have won” the presidential election, “in which case I would have gotten back into the business, and why should I lose lots of opportunities?”

What astounds me, even though it shouldn't given Trump's track record, is that all of this shit wasn't even remotely subtle, and while they lied their asses off to deny and hide it this just resulted in an international revealing cover-up. How do you fuck up so bad that it's not a matter of "if", just "when and how"? Then again, this is the same administration where they tried to proclaim that Trumps rule will "not be questioned" so they probably presumed that no one would even bother investigating and calling them on any of it. Somehow.

BuT tHeRe WaS nO DeAlS oR cOlLuSiOn!

There was a good chance that I wouldn’t have won” the presidential election, “in which case I would have gotten back into the business, and why should I lose lots of opportunities?” this coming from the man who hasn't given up any business opportunities once elected.

these past few days has been nothing but this. https://media.giphy.com/media/9MFsKQ8A6HCN2/giphy.gif gonna have to invest into a popcorn machine at this rate.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1068442531887632384

I've already got one. Sure am getting my money's worth on it lately, though.

Worth pointing this out, too, as its part of that tweet. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1068444287380025344 "Lightly looked" -> Did all the work necessary to get things to the point where he could potentially sign a Letter of Intent "Put up Zero Money" -> If we exclude travel costs, maybe, but also only because the people putting up the money were Putin's biggest pals who were considering bankrolling the whole thing. "Zero guarantees" -> He signed a Letter of Intent. A Letter of Intent may not be legally binding, but it is a declaration that you are 100% going to go into the legally binding step of the contract. "Didn't do the project" -> Is not the same as 'didn't want to do the project'. Is not the same as 'don't want to do the project'. Is not the same as 'am and have considered re-opening the project, considering we got to the LoI stage'. Even his lies are becoming publicly researchable to the point we can just openly trash them.

The first tweet is 3:52 AM and the next is 3:59 AM. I want to know what kind of mental process goes on to make a brief 133 character statement in 7 minutes that really only takes a minute or two for even the slowest typer.

Ffs marry him already

It's simple. He was busy figuring out a way to "Be right" while also, to his mind, not telling "a lie". Obviously he failed in that.

Anybody who still believes that Trump isn't corrupt to the core is a fucking idiot. Full stop.

dementia

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/819159806489591809 A river of lies pours fourth from this malignant little traitor's mouth, shifting course and forking into new lies only as each branch is dammed with new evidence. To reiterate: those still believing a single word that comes from this treasonous fuck's mouth are CHOOSING to be fools. You don't deserve to be taken seriously until you admit how legendarily stupid you've been, and apologize for helping to put our nation through this humiliating chapter of our history.

Instead they gave him the white house.

"No nothing" is a double-negative, so that means they DO have something! And that's how you check-mate in 4D chess.