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brooklynite

(95,012 posts)
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 03:49 PM Oct 2017

Trumps company had more contact with Russia during campaign

Source: Washington Post

Associates of President Trump and his company have turned over documents to federal investigators that reveal two previously unreported contacts from Russia during the 2016 campaign, according to people familiar with the matter.

In one case, Trump’s personal attorney and a business associate exchanged emails weeks before the Republican National Convention about the lawyer possibly traveling to an economic conference in Russia that would be attended by top Russian financial and government leaders, including President Vladi­mir Putin, according to people familiar with the correspondence.

In the other case, the same Trump attorney, Michael Cohen, received a proposal in late 2015 for a Moscow residential project from a company founded by a billionaire who once served in the upper house of the Russian parliament, these people said. The previously unreported inquiry marks the second proposal for a Trump-branded Moscow project that was delivered to the company during the presidential campaign and has since come to light.

Cohen declined the invitation to the economic conference, citing the difficulty of attending so close to the GOP convention, according to people familiar with the matter. And Cohen rejected the Moscow building plan.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-company-had-more-contact-with-russia-during-campaign-according-to-documents-turned-over-to-investigators/2017/10/02/2091fe5e-a6c0-11e7-850e-2bdd1236be5d_story.html

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Trumps company had more contact with Russia during campaign (Original Post) brooklynite Oct 2017 OP
It Just Never Ends Me. Oct 2017 #1
Under the radar today, meanwhile -- President Traitor. byronius Oct 2017 #2
How much more evidence do we need? Abouttime Oct 2017 #3
Cohen dutifully informed Trump about everything because Trump likes to be seen procon Oct 2017 #4
Is this one of those tRumpisms where he could collude w/Russia on 5th Ave ffr Oct 2017 #5
A lot of contact with Russians rockfordfile Oct 2017 #6
 

Abouttime

(675 posts)
3. How much more evidence do we need?
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 05:02 PM
Oct 2017

What's this? The 100th smoking gun?
Someone from our side needs to step up and end this nightmare.
Impeach him! How much more evidence do we need?

procon

(15,805 posts)
4. Cohen dutifully informed Trump about everything because Trump likes to be seen
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 05:12 PM
Oct 2017

with powerful people, thinking that money alone makes him an A-list celebrity with the rich and famous. If there was a building plan for Moscow, he must have discussed it with Trump to get his decision on the deal.

Mueller is going to love getting his hands on Cohen.

ffr

(22,681 posts)
5. Is this one of those tRumpisms where he could collude w/Russia on 5th Ave
Tue Oct 3, 2017, 04:12 PM
Oct 2017

And he wouldn't lose any of his rube followers?

LOCK HIM UP!

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