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Nonbinding letter of intent signed by trump in the fall of 2015 fell through. but not before trump s attorney reached out to the kremlin for help. cohen said in a statement today he mailed russian president vladimir putin s spokesperson compete try peskov for help on behalf of the trump organization. we could make deals if we wanted to. but according to economist and investigative journalist james henry, all of the focus on trump s deals in russia might be missing the point. it isn t so much that trump has been investing in russia. it s that he has been receiving lots of finance from the former soviet union states, from oligarchs. i ve got more oligarchs living in my buildings. and before he became a politician, businessman donald trump boasted about it. have you had any dealings with the russians? well, i ve done a lot of business with the russians. the most expensive home ever
Rossalynn, i will start with you. complicated things in terms of the characters whaen we are learning. just the time line of this deal. one of the big revelations that starts in the reporting over the weekend and develops today is we were told that basically there is no overlap between donald trump running for president and trump pursuing a moscow deal. that is definitively not true, as we now know, right? right. donald trump starts running for president in june of 2015. we now know that in september of 2015 is when these conversations about sort of this attempt to build a trump tower in moscow begin. donald trump himself signs that letter of intent with a moscow-based development company on october 28, 2015. and then we get this e-mail from michael cohen to dimy try peskov. so what you ve got a an active process during the heat of the
We now know that in september of 2015 is when these conversations about sort of this attempt to build a trump tower in moscow begin. donald trump himself signs that letter of intent with a moscow-based development company on october 28, 2015. and then we get this e-mail from michael cohen to dimy try peskov. so what you ve got a an active process during the heat of the republican primary campaign election. now, not only that, matt, but to your reporting on that sater e-mail which is pretty remarkable document, because it explicitly connects the two, right? it could be the case that there is a parallel that is the trump org and they are doing deals everywhere, in turkey, in the philippines. but the sater e-mail says, no, no, no, there is a direct line. if we build this and get pewter pute /- putin on board, that will get donald trump elected.