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MelissaB

(16,420 posts)
Mon Aug 28, 2017, 12:40 PM Aug 2017

Felix Sater, shady figure and boastful salesman, saw Putin as key to Trump win

Trump Associate Boasted That Moscow Deal Will Get Donald Elected
Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON — A business associate of President Trump promised in 2015 to engineer a real estate deal with the aid of the president of Russia, Vladimir V. Putin, that he said would help Mr. Trump win the presidency.

The business associate, Felix Sater, wrote a series of emails to Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, in which he boasted about his ties to Mr. Putin and predicted that building a Trump Tower in Moscow would be a political boon to Mr. Trump’s candidacy.

“Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it,” Mr. Sater wrote in an email. “I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.”

The emails show that, from the earliest months of Mr. Trump’s campaign, his associates viewed close ties with Moscow as a political advantage. Those ties are now under investigation by the Justice Department and multiple congressional committees.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/politics/trump-tower-putin-felix-sater.html?referer=&_r=0
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Felix Sater, shady figure and boastful salesman, saw Putin as key to Trump win (Original Post) MelissaB Aug 2017 OP
Gawd-foresaken republican TreasonWeasels Achilleaze Aug 2017 #1
Baby cannon goes boom... again. MelissaB Aug 2017 #2

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
1. Gawd-foresaken republican TreasonWeasels
Mon Aug 28, 2017, 12:42 PM
Aug 2017

....should be condemned to Siberia for selling out America and American democracy.

Shame shame shame on the corrupt, treasonous republicans against America.

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