'I will answer every question': Onetime Trump business partner Felix Sater is set to tell House

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post



Congressional investigators looking into President Trump's ties to Russia are scheduled to hear Friday from one of the most cooperative Trump associates yet: Felix Sater, a Russian-born real estate developer who said he plans to discuss previously undisclosed details about his efforts to get a Trump tower built in Moscow.

While the testimony of former Trump aides has been largely stymied so far by White House objections, Sater, who has a long history of assisting government investigations, said he plans to give substantive answers during his closed-door interview with the House Intelligence Committee. "I will answer every question without exception," said Sater, who worked on two separate efforts to develop a Trump tower in Russia. "I always have and always will cooperate with anything the U.S. government asks of me."

Among the topics Sater said he plans to address: How a former Soviet army general offered him advice on developing a Trump tower project in Moscow during the 2016 campaign -- interactions that were not detailed in former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's report.

Sater is also expected to provide additional details about how he and Michael Cohen, then Trump's personal attorney, pursued the deal even as Trump was seeking the Republican presidential nomination. Cohen, who is now serving a three-year prison sentence, admitted last year that he lied to Congress when he said that discussions about the project ended in January 2016.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/i-will-answer-every-question-onetime-trump-business-partner-felix-sater-is-set-to-tell-house-panel-new-details-about-moscow-project/2019/06/20/754b9e8c-91d8-11e9-b58a-a6a9afaa0e3e_story.html

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Full headline: 'I will answer every question': Onetime Trump business partner Felix Sater is set to tell a House panel new details about Moscow project

[Thomas Hurt]

1. seems odd, what is it, he has nothing to say or Trump has not bought him off or scared him into

keeping his mouth shut..

[BumRushDaShow]

3. When Chris Hayes had him on awhile ago

He was an oddly slimey but sophisticated guy. I believe the story was that he had been an FBI informant in the past.

[certainot]

18. with all the foreign connections seems like a cia-type guy

[BumRushDaShow]

19. True unless he was dealing with the "American" side of the interactions.

I.e., not as a "spy" on a foreign government (CIA) but as a mole in operations involving other Americans and their dealings with foreigners.

[Javaman]

5. or maybe putin wants to...

squeeze the orange assholes nuts to show him whose still boss.

[duforsure]

2. How long before we find out

He's not going to talk after all, and learn he's being threatened by someone working for trump and one from Putin..

[poli-junkie]

4. Another closed-door testimony

Why oh why do the Dems agree to this???

[BumRushDaShow]

8. They can demand classified info that way

otherwise the hearing will end up being a witness insisting that they have been advised that the answers to their questions would be considered "classified" and not permitted to be made "public".

[OnDoutside]

13. What classified info would that hoodlum have ?

[BumRushDaShow]

17. He was an FBI informant.

Not sure if you saw his appearance in an interview on Chris Hayes' show back in March, but it was pretty eye-opening! I posted the video segment in this thread here - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142331328#post9

Chances are he was a mole in that whole setup with the Tower.

He's what I would call a very prim and polished slimeball!

[Leghorn21]

6. Let's go here, Sater. Bring us something of value, goddamit.

He was scheduled to testify at an OPEN hearing on March 27 - it was cancelled when Barr released his bogus “summary” on March 24.

If he tells some truths, this would be fantastic.

MF45 is terrified of the guy - GOOD, wishing you a really shitty sleepless night, LOSER

I know he did some work for the FBI (in fact, Mueller investigator Andrew Weismann drew up the cooperation papers on him, small world) - so he might be...subdued or something, or getting some protection from the government, but Lordy, please bring us something.


https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/trump-felix-sater-andrew-weissman/

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Yes

When he was on Chris Hayes some time ago, that came up.

Found the interview -

[BigmanPigman]

10. I remember seeing that interview.

Sater is a complex man to say the least.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. There was this whole "persona" that the media had built up about him

emphasizing where he was born and who he had dealings with and whatnot, suggesting that he was some Russian guy with a heavy Russian accent... Which made it shocking to actually hear him speak, complete with a very practiced and polished (New York without the stereotypical accent) voice while oh so carefully sliming his way through the interview. But he is literally like a Tony Soprano kind of guy.

[Leghorn21]

12. Thanks, Bum! - and of course, here's LOSER45 running away when Sater's name comes up

Back in the day, “TICK TOCK, BAYROCK” was a popular cry (seems like decades ago)

Let’s go here, Sater

[BumRushDaShow]

16. Yeah Sater knows a lot

probably more than Cohen.

[Tiggeroshii]

7. That could be significant.

And it might not. Worth a try, though.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. "......... by invoking the 5th amendment...... nt

[The Wizard]

14. Did he say he'd give honest answers?

[mr_lebowski]

20. Don't get your hopes up folks ... (nt)

[Historic NY]

21. If I showup, well he didn't.