Trump’s Russia connections are becoming clearer
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Donald Trump was negotiating with Russian officials over a tower project he wanted to build in Moscow right up to the time he won the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, according to new legal documents filed by special counsel Robert Mueller. The upshot is that Trump had deeper financial interests in Russia while running for president than he has acknowledged up till now.
The new information comes in legal filings associated with a new guilty plea by Michael Cohen, who was a senior executive at the Trump Organization from 2006 until earlier this year. In August, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges and began cooperating with prosecutors probing Trump’s connections to Russia. Cohen has now pleaded guilty to lying to Congress, based on false claims he made regarding the Russia project to House and Senate intelligence committees in 2017.
Cohen said then that the Moscow project ended with no deal in January 2016, which was after Trump had declared his presidential candidacy but before any of the primary elections. But Mueller found that Cohen—and Trump—continued to pursue the deal until as late as June of that year, when Trump was poised to become the Republican presidential nominee".
http://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trumps-russia-connections-becoming-clearer-183421875.html
Trump calls potential 2016 Moscow deal 'very legal,' 'very cool' in renewed defense
"President Donald Trump defended his actions pursuing a business deal in Russia, calling it "very legal & very cool" as he woke up in Argentina on Friday morning to start his day at the G-20 summit.
In a pair of tweets, Trump reiterated his defense from Thursday saying he was doing nothing wrong in running his business during the 2016 presidential campaign. The controversy over Trump pursuing construction of a Trump Tower in Russia bubbled to the surface after his former personal attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to making false statements about his involvement in pursuing the deal".
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-calls-cohen-liar-wrong-pursuing-project-moscow/story?id=59494189
Question: If it was legal, why did he try to hide it? "I have nothing to do with Russia - no deals, no loans, no nothing!" - Trump Jan. 3 2017. "Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets". "We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia". Trump Jr, 2008. "We don't rely on American banks".
We have all the funding we need out of Russia." Eric Trump 2014.
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on Fri 11/30/18 01:42 PM