It's Official, Russians Corrupted The Election

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Begins to sound like the Trump guys corrupted the Russians.

I suppose it is a toss-up of who is more corrupt, Trump or Putin.

[Rajoo]

Well Putin has an 80%+ approval whereas out Twitter in Chief is slipping below the 35% benchmark.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

Well Putin has an 80%+ approval whereas out Twitter in Chief is slipping below the 35% benchmark.

Russians love their authoritarian tyrant, or else!!

[bobabode]

In Russia, FSB polls you.

[bobabode]

"Evidence that then-presidential candidate Donald Trump was pursuing a lucrative business deal with Russia and that his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, emailed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s personal spokesman to intervene raises the stakes in Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation substantially. The Post reports:
Cohen’s email to [Dmitry] Peskov provides an example of a Trump business official directly seeking Kremlin assistance in advancing Trump’s business interests. … Cohen said he discussed the deal three times with Trump and that Trump signed a letter of intent with the company on Oct. 28, 2015. He said the Trump company began to solicit designs from architects and discuss financing.
Ethics expert Norman Eisen warns: “Now we have a second group of emails from those in Trump’s orbit suggesting high-level outreach to Russia in and around the election season. Like the now-famous email exchange with Don Jr. about Russia’s ‘support for Mr. Trump,’ these new documents promising that ‘Putin’s team’ will ‘buy in’ on Trump raise the question of what the president knew of all this and when he knew it.” He tells me, “The emails add important additional evidence to the special counsel’s investigation, both as to possible collusion and as to obstruction of justice, inasmuch as they deepen the suspicion of a possible malign Trump motive for attempting to block the Russia investigation.”
Now, Cohen insists to The Post that the Trump Tower Moscow proposal was “not related in any way to Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign.” But of course, we don’t know that and neither does he. Mueller, however, will be looking for evidence, as Eisen puts it, “that Trump or his agents actually agreed to better treatment for Putin and Russia in exchange for a present or future Trump Tower Moscow.” That would, he says, “go beyond collusion to outright corruption.” But even without a smoking gun showing a quid pro quo, the extent to which Trump was compromised — and may remain so — should concern Congress and the voters." J. Rubin at the Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...=.d0d0a3f36f03

Another good one from 'The Right Turn' at the Washington Post. Well worth reading.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by finnbow

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 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 highlight Mr. Trump’s savvy negotiating skills and be a political boon to his 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...I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/u...lix-sater.html

Check this link out, Finn. Looks like Trump Inc. may have been in bed with some sanctioned Russian banks to finance this Trump Towers Moscow scheme.

https://therealdeal.com/2017/08/28/m...-moscow-tower/

[Dondilion]

Bershidsky: Trump's Business Record In Russia Is Humiliating.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/artic...w-twitter-view

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

Bershidsky: Trump's Business Record In Russia Is Humiliating.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/artic...w-twitter-view

Not surprised that Trump is a lousy businessman. Somehow he was able to brand the Trump name and make money off of it. Wonder how much the brand is worth or attractive today unless buffoonery sells.

[finnbow]

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is working with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on its investigation into Paul Manafort and his financial transactions, according to several people familiar with the matter.

The cooperation is the latest indication that the federal probe into President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman is intensifying. It also could potentially provide Mueller with additional leverage to get Manafort to cooperate in the larger investigation into Trump’s campaign, as Trump does not have pardon power over state crimes.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...general-242191

[Chicks]

Schneiderman got "never settle" Trump to settle for $25 million in his fake university lawsuit. Let's hope he can get the ass for money laundering, at the very least. Trump hates him, because he's afraid of him, and can't pardon state crimes. Good.