Trump Associate Boasted That Moscow Deal Will Get Donald Elected

[MelissaB]

Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON — A business associate of President Trump promised in 2015 to engineer a real estate deal with the aid of the president of Russia, Vladimir V. Putin, that he said would help Mr. Trump win the presidency.

The business associate, Felix Sater, wrote a series of emails to Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, in which he boasted about his ties to Mr. Putin and predicted that building a Trump Tower in Moscow would be a political boon to Mr. Trump’s candidacy.

“Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it,” Mr. Sater wrote in an email. “I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.”

The emails show that, from the earliest months of Mr. Trump’s campaign, his associates viewed close ties with Moscow as a political advantage. Those ties are now under investigation by the Justice Department and multiple congressional committees.

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[Achilleaze]

1. F*cking republican TreasonWeasels

should be condemned to Siberia for selling out America and American democracy.

Shame shame shame on the corrupt, treasonous republicans against America.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

8. Hopefully...

... the upgrades to Gitmo that the GOP intends will be self serving.

[ffr]

2. KABOOM!

Oh reeeeeeally! Money and ruthless politics and working with a foreign government to influence the election. I don't suppose there's any law against that.

[MelissaB]

3. I'm guessing it's going to be a busy week for baby cannon.

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[asiliveandbreathe]

4. Our boy - gotta love it....and all the while we are asked to accept the tanks on our

local streets..accept the poverty of so many - when billionaires could wipe out hunger, homelessness in a single swipe -

dissenters will have grenades thrown at them if they don't use their indoor voices..dissenters, resisters - are now supposedly antifa..a rw pigeon holing if I ever saw one....

The paranoid pos in the wh is pure evil..and for ryan to expect the churches to shore up the govt budget..well - I just am at a loss for words..

I am the last person to lose a positive outlook on the future... but it just seems to get uglier.....

[L. Coyote]

5. The e-mails, the e-mails, the Republican e-mails!

Sweet irony, the f***ing e-mails.

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[FigTree]

6. He wouldn't have run at all wihtout some form of established Russian support/strategy.

This was not improvised after, it was set up before. And it will come out.

[BigmanPigman]

7. Putin has been getting 45 readied as an agent for them for 5 years.

[Hieronymus]

9. MSNBC is covering this intensely.

No one could be surprised that Trump lies.