although it didn t get that much focus, but the testimony was that the president s lawyers allegedly conspired to on his false testimony to congress. that s a very important claim. and cohen, again, alleged that. you don t have to believe michael cohen, but i think that if you read our story and watched cohen s testimony, i think those things line up. here are a few key details independent of, did he instruct him to lie, that appear to be confirmed. that trump briefed cohen on moscow project around ten times during the 2016 campaign, a part of the testimony and a jaw-dropping part of that story. yes, just to step back. the reason that the moscow tower project is now right at the center of every of this conversation between trump and russia is because of how jaw-dropping it is. this is deep into the 2016 campaign. we re talking the summer of 2016. this is what jason and anthony revealed, they were having that conversation about a $300 million deal to build the tallest building in
we have just learned that one of the ideas for promoting the trump tower in moscow was to offer the russian president, vladimir putin, the penthouse. in that tower. think about that for one second and how the president was saying he was such a strong, amazing, wonderful leader during all this time he s offering him the penthouse. trump s running for president. the russian-born businessman who was working on the project with michael cohen tells cnn that it was a marketing ploy, buzzfeed citing two law enforcement forces. outfront now, democratic congressman mike quigley of illinois who sits on the house intelligence committee. congressman, your reaction to this, that one of the ideas to promote the trump tower was to offer vladimir putin the penthouse. you know, it s interesting. it was called a marketing ploy. in any city in the united states, it would be nothing short of a bribe. it is clearly bad enough that
the cover up is worse than the crime. we learned very little because mueller doesn t leak. we are trying to figure out what is he trying to tell us. now we have the cohen plea deal. he confirmed to cnn about one idea considered for the proposed trump tower moscow was to offer vladimir putin the penthouse, according to felix sater. that is a way to essentially get the regulatory system greased. get this greased. he said he wants it, you get it greased. this is interesting to me. a columnist in the new york post said what are they doing? why are people picking on president trump? today i m not such a skeptic. for starters, we know between the plea deal and the special
john about plans for pollutant to allegedly get a posh pad at the trump tower moscow if it had moved forward. this story really came out of the blue. it excited one of the originators, and the originator of the idea was a real estate guy named felix seiter. we could not get in touch with him. apparently the plan was for their trump tower project to give vladimir putin the penthouse, which was worth some $50 million, in order to try to attack russian oligarchs to the project to say hey, come live where vladimir putin lives. i talked to a source that was close to the president who talked to him about this. the president said that the stories nuts, that it s a stupid idea to think about giving a $50 million penthouse to the president of russia, and that the president certainly didn t hear anything about this.