NEW: Felix Sater tells SkullduggeryPod that Trump wanted to reveal his secret CIA and FBI work during the 2016 campaign by Isikoff
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump wanted to reveal years of secret work that his one-time real estate adviser Felix Sater did for the CIA and FBI because he thought it would result in “mildly positive” press stories that would make him look “patriotic,” Sater said in a new interview.
Sater made his comments in a new interview with Yahoo News’ “Skullduggery” podcast shortly after a federal judge unsealed 10-year-old documents that confirm in greater detail than ever before the work that he did for government agencies starting in the late 1990s and continuing for more than a decade.
In addition, the prosecutors wrote, Sater “went above and beyond what is expected of most cooperators” and “placed himself in great jeopardy,” including flying to Afghanistan and Central Asia to provide the CIA with details about Osama bin Laden’s satellite phones, the location of Taliban leader Mullah Omar and even an assassination plot against President George W. Bush.
The release of the long-sealed documents on Friday by U.S. District Judge I. Leo Glasser was at least partial vindication for Sater, a colorful Russian-born émigré whose ties to Trump have long been a subject of controversy. Critics of the president, including some in Congress, have suggested that Sater was a potential link between Trump and organized crime.
Much of Sater’s information about these and other terror plots grew out of his connections to “several high-ranking Russian military or former military” officers, including “frequent contact with a former high-ranking KGB officer and arms dealer who possessed information about potential threats to the Asian republics,” the prosecutors wrote in their unsealed letter.
But it is Sater’s comments during the interview about his relationship with Trump that are likely to be of the most interest. He described how he became a real estate adviser to the Trump Organization — with a nearby office at Trump Tower in Manhattan — and even escorted daughter Ivanka Trump and son Donald Jr. on a trip to Moscow, at their father’s request.
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