Flynn Cops a Plea

[chadk66]

Winning is tough business.

[PaceAdvantage]

Originally Posted by hcap

The Peace Girl avatar is more relevant than any of your fact-free bullshit.

You have a hard on for Trump.

Diagnosis: TDS

[hcap]

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...nt_134895.html

WASHINGTON -- Just so there’s no confusion: Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer emailed Vladimir Putin’s personal spokesman? Seeking help from the Kremlin on a deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow? During the presidential campaign?

Yes, this really happened. While most attention was rightly focused on the devastating flood in Houston, there was quite a bit of news on the Russia front -- all of it, from Trump’s perspective, quite bad.

The revelations begin with a Trump business associate named Felix Sater. A Russian emigre who bragged about his Kremlin connections, Sater was a principal figure in development of the Trump Soho hotel and condominium project in lower Manhattan. Sater wrote a series of emails to Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, touting the Moscow Trump Tower project as a way to help Trump win the presidency.

In November 2015 -- five months after Trump had entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination -- Sater wrote to Cohen that he had “arranged” for Trump’s daughter Ivanka, during a 2006 visit to Moscow, “to sit in Putins private chair at his desk and office in the Kremlin.”

The email went on, “I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected. We both know no one else knows how to pull this off without stupidity or greed getting in the way. I know how to play it and we will get this done. Buddy our boy can become President of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this.”

Could Sater be just a blowhard who exaggerated his influence with the Russian president? Perhaps. But Ivanka Trump did tell The New York Times that she took a “brief tour of Red Square and the Kremlin” during that 2006 visit. The Times reported she said that “it is possible she sat in Mr. Putin’s chair during that tour but she did not recall it.”

There is no evidence that Cohen, one of Trump’s closest associates, found anything improper in Sater’s pledge to get Putin “on this program.” Nor did Cohen or anyone in the Trump Organization bother to disclose the emails -- or the Trump firm’s effort, even during the campaign, to profitably emblazon the Trump name on the Moscow skyline -- until the correspondence was turned over to the House Intelligence Committee on Monday.

BTW,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Sater

In 1998, Sater pleaded guilty to his involvement in a $40 million stock fraud scheme orchestrated by the Russian Mafia.[7][8] In exchange for his guilty plea, he agreed to become an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and federal prosecutors, assisting with organized crime. In July 2017, it was reported that Sater had agreed to cooperate with investigators concerning an international money laundering scheme.[9]

[hcap]

And there’s more: In January 2016, with the Moscow project apparently stalled, Cohen went straight to the top to get it back on track -- or at least tried to. He sent an email to Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s longtime personal spokesman, “hereby requesting your assistance.”

Peskov confirmed that the email was received but said he did nothing about it and that it was not given to Putin.

So Trump was lying when he tweeted, shortly before his inauguration, that “I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA -- NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!” The truth is that in October 2015, on the same day he participated in a GOP candidates’ debate, he signed a letter of intent for the Moscow Trump Tower project.

That is a “deal,” and Trump’s hunger to keep it alive may explain his reluctance to say anything critical about Putin. Or it may tell just part of the story.

The other part involves the whole question of collusion between Russian officials and the Trump campaign to meddle with the election and boost Trump’s chances. Sater’s boasts, by themselves, are hardly definitive. But of course there is the larger context, which includes the infamous meeting that Donald Trump Jr. convened in New York at which he hoped to receive dirt, courtesy of the Russian government, on Hillary Clinton.

[Tom]

Merry Christmas, Harry.

Politically incorrect by design!

[woodtoo]

They won't even add their own names instead (c)2017 Post Writers Group

Too bad they don't show any real evidence like perhaps the actual email they speak of.

[OntheRail]

hcap.... are you stuffing a mattress or building a hut with all the straw your grabbing at?

[hcap]

Originally Posted by Tom

Merry Christmas, Harry.

Politically incorrect by design!

Happy Hanukah Tom
On this site those who dump on Trump are the politically incorrect
PA thinks I suffer from TDS. You gents have THS

T hard on S

[PaceAdvantage]

Nobody is politically incorrect on this forum. All opinions are welcome. Even yours, believe it or not.

Happy Holidays!

[Tom]

Happy Hanukah Tom

Touche!

[chadk66]

Fake News? no way

[hcap]

Originally Posted by hcap

So Trump was lying when he tweeted, shortly before his inauguration, that “I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA -- NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!” The truth is that in October 2015, on the same day he participated in a GOP candidates’ debate, he signed a letter of intent for the Moscow Trump Tower project.

I know how much youse guys love Rachel Maddow as a non fake Real reporter. The house repug intel committee runs and hides just like you gents

Trump partner with mob ties interviewed out of range of Democrats
Rachel Maddow reports on the colorful background of Donald Trump business partner Felix Sater, from ties to organized crime to FBI informant, and wonders why this particular witness was interviewed by House Intel staff in New York instead of D.C.


http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/w...-1122891843739

[Tom]

Did she, by chance investigate OBama's ties to TERRORISTS right here in DC?

Thought not.

[JustRalph]

There is no way you do real estate development in NY City and not be "acquainted" with the Mob.

It’s a given.

[PaceAdvantage]

Originally Posted by hcap

I know how much youse guys love Rachel Maddow as a non fake Real reporter. The house repug intel committee runs and hides just like you gents

Trump partner with mob ties interviewed out of range of Democrats
Rachel Maddow reports on the colorful background of Donald Trump business partner Felix Sater, from ties to organized crime to FBI informant, and wonders why this particular witness was interviewed by House Intel staff in New York instead of D.C.


http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/w...-1122891843739

Obama was elected and even allowed to continue being president despite his ties to Tony Rezko...thus I don't see the above as a problem.

You remember Tony Rezko, don't you? I do.

Probably most people don't though...because the complicit media tried it's best to poo-poo that particular ugly mark on Obama's record...unlike with Trump, where they will shine the brightest light on even the smallest stain.