Asked to comment on his former lawyer’s confession in federal court on Thursday that the Trump Organization had secretly negotiated with the Russian government during the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump attempted to sell the American people an outrageous lie.
Michael Cohen’s secret negotiations with Russian officials and their proxies to arrange financing and permits for a Trump Tower in Moscow — conducted as Trump was publicly heaping lavish praise on President Vladimir Putin — had never been secret at all, the president told reporters outside the White House.
“Everybody knew about it, it was written about in newspapers, it was a well-known project,” Trump claimed, falsely, about his company’s covert effort, “during the early part of ’16 and I guess even before that,” to develop a luxury skyscraper with help from Putin’s office and a former general in Russia’s military intelligence service.
In fact, the existence of such a project, which was being negotiated in secret during the entire span of the Republican primary campaign — from at least October 2015, when Trump signed a letter of intent with a Russian developer, through January 2016, when Cohen called an aide to Putin’s spokesperson, until some time after Trump secured the nomination in June — was not known about or reported at the time. There was no indication in the outline of Cohen’s confession sketched out by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Thursday as to why the proposed deal was dropped, but the timeline might offer a clue. Cohen suddenly backed out of a trip to Russia arranged by the Kremlin on the afternoon of June 14, 2016 — about three hours after the Washington Post revealed that Russian hackers had penetrated the servers of the Democratic National Committee and stolen documents related to the election. Before leaving for the Group of 20 summit in Argentina, where he was scheduled to meet Putin — a plan abandoned after takeoff — Trump avoided questions about the lie he repeated again and again during the 2016 general election campaign: that he had no business interests in Russia at all.
Michael Cohen offered to give Vladimir Putin a luxury apartment worth $50 million, in return for help in financing the construction of a Trump Tower in Moscow, and Trump described his secret pursuit of a business deal with Kremlin officials as “very legal & very cool.”
Donald Trump Claims Everyone Knew About Secret Russian Deal No One Knew About
There was a time when headlines like these would only be seen in the Onion.
Isaiah Kelly
the russia shit was created by trump to distract from Israel
Adrian Hall
We live in an onion now There's layers.
And tears.
But The onion gets sweet when heated up, though.
Liam Sanders
probably because he's doing this on purpose to deflect from Israel
Jacob Peterson
"gaslighting"
Trump, 2016: "I know nothing about Russia. I don't deal there. I have no businesses there."
Trump, 2018: "In 2016, we were looking at a project in Moscow. Everybody knew about it, it was a well-known project."
Jaxon Ortiz
Eh Faggot notice how nobody is pointing out the Israel connections and when ever something suspicious between Trump and Israel happens he on purpose does something like this, you're a fool and being misguided by bibi and Jewtin
Ryan Reed
it was all israels plan to have russia invade ukraine and take control of a critical port?
David Hernandez
Russia stole the election, I knew it. Time to nuke those fuckers.
Stop using memes your nigger IQ could never think of and fuck off back to reddit.
Noah Morris
what a fantastic excuse to do nothing and lock up no one
trump is a fraud
gg
Nolan Clark
This shit you're trying to pull - it isn't working.
Joseph Sanders
-doing russian deals in secret -getting son to meet with russians to subvert his own country's political opponents and elections -has lawyers and campaign advisors doing business deals in russia -sides with russian president over his own countrymen with regards to hacking election -when told of problem of election hacking, literally does nothing to prevent it from happening next election even though his own country's cybersecurity experts are warning him to do something -sucks putin's dick on the regular -finally admits his son did meet with russians to subvert political opponent but claims "people do it all the time!" - (if they want to go to jail) -finally admits he was doing business deals in russia but "everybody knew about it!"
The got rid of communism, and the US Took the Baltic states.
MIC needs an angry Russia(and China and dunebunnies)
Blake Russell
Trump likes greasing his palms. The legality is another story. Cool opinion, I've heard many opinions, that he sides with America, Russians, to Israel. Maybe he just likes money like the kike he is He's not a dictator and nor should you want him to be, he can't control every election in all states, every facebook post and election ad, and every campaign contribution from everyone ever "except selective treatment from ole Russia". If so, that would mean trusting centralized power in the hands of the federal government to 'secure' an election and social media 'propaganda'. Nice wording for something totally legal, until you specify what information was illegal then you lose. inb4 'muh F.E.C. violation' and "I'M POSITIVE THIS WAS THE ILLEGAL INFO GIVEN BY THE RUSSIAN, AND IT WASNT PUBLIC INFO FROM WIKIPEDIA! ITS TOTALLY AN ESTABLISHED LEGAL PRECEDENT GOY!"
I hope every person hangs. Trump Team, Mueller and his buddies, Congress, the Jew News, lots of "subverters" need to go. If Trump is the only person targeted, you get more rats than when you started.
Andrew Martinez
THIS. Russia is now a capitalist nation, not communist. The Military Industrial Complex always needs big boogeymen for their wars (and cold wars), China is such a massive trade partner with the US they have chosen to pick Putin to be the big boogeyman. Any American afraid of Russia or Putin is a fucking coward, a pussy falling for more Military Industrial Complex propaganda $$$. "Give us more taxpayer Trillions and we promise this time, we could defeat our enemies!" Thats all this is. Also, thats how the Soviet Union collapsed too (it bankrupted itself via mass insolvent expenditures). So we're ripe for the same outcome soon.
As for this report, its like the 10,000th report on this subject I've seen and NONE of the others were true or held actual evidence or any solid proof of Trump doing wrong. All hearsay by the corporate media, and that makes them $$$ too. So either he's really fucking good at covering his ass, or he didn't really do what they claim he did.
Brandon Price
I remember before Trump was elected the media were trying to say that he was going to go to war with Putin. Because Trump famously said he might punch Putin on the nose.
Luke Diaz
The USSR never ended it just had to catch its breath
Kayden Robinson
his advisors told him to do something about russian hacking. address it. tell off putin. fund an investigation, or give more money to address cybersecurity/cybercrime, but trump did NOTHING. he was totally okay with it because putin was helping him and he wanted to build a trump tower in moscow.
your idea of "legal" needs work.
52 U.S. Code § 30121 - Contributions and donations by foreign nationals
US Code Notes
prev | next (a) ProhibitionIt shall be unlawful for— (1) a foreign national, directly or indirectly, to make— (A) a contribution or donation of money or other thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State, or local election; (B) a contribution or donation to a committee of a political party; or (C) an expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication (within the meaning of section 30104(f)(3) of this title); or (2) a person to solicit, accept, or receive a contribution or donation described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1) from a foreign national
Henry Jackson
hehe Petrol…. Nigger Sniff :D
Cameron Wilson
yes because a whole skyscraper went up in secret…. nobody went hey umm what is that building
Ryan Evans
Silly and impotent burgerkikes, yuor country is in shambles thanks to your hedonistic excesses, now that the great MOTHERLAND OF RUSSIA is offering good relationships with your head of state you should not repeat the errors of the boomers and instead embrace GLORIOUS WHITE RUSSIA as your ideological saviors instead of filthy pizda jews from Israel. This is your chance to atone for your prologed sins. HAIL RUSSIA, HAIL PIUIT
Carson Diaz
It might be pointless trying to point this out to OP, but whatever.
