according to buzzfeed, which first reported this news, is that cohen discussed the idea with a representative of putin s press secretary, and that the penthouse that would have been offed to putin was worth $50 million. so it would have been a $50 million gift potentially to the president of russia. is there any indication that the president or then citizen donald trump was made aware of this proposed gift of $50 million of a $50 million penthouse? it s not clear. i think candidate trump was informed of the idea, so it s hard to say what the significance of this is, as it pertains to him. it does give you more insight into what was in the works. we should note rudy giuliani, the president s attorney, said the story is a story the president never heard of this, and the concept never got anywhere yonlbeyond an unfunded letter of intent and never a proposal or draft contract. cohen would not provide a comment for the story. do we know what he means by
that turned out to be demonstrably false according to a draft contract obtained by the new york times, one of lewandowski s clients community choice financial offered him a $20,000 a month retainer to explicitly further their agenda. consider this one. here is what sean spicer told reporters back on may 16th when fox news posted a story that ended up being restraktd later that attempted to link the death of a dnc staff to wikileaks. scene, can we get a white house reaction or the president s reaction to the report that seth rich was e-mailing wikileaks before his murder? i don t i m not aware of generally i don t get updates on dnc, former dnc staffers. i m not aware of that. at the time we thought that was innocuous answer. turned out spicer was aware at that time. in fact, he ended up acknowledging in an n pr story yesterday after allegations were made in federal court that he personally met with the sources of that fox news story in april.