3 years ago, Michael Cohen was working on a potential Trump tower in Moscow. Today he is in prison for crimes that include lying to Congress about the project. Here's how President Trump risked everything for the relatively tiny deal:
afterward, tagging the elder Agalarov."You have done a FANTASTIC job. TRUMP TOWER-MOSCOW is next."
In November 2015, Donald Trump, by then a presidential candidate, sat down with former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, who challenged him over his accommodating stance toward Russia."[Putin] doesn't make deals," O'Reilly reasoned."He just rolls soldiers in to cause destruction and shoots down airplanes.
Felix Sater stands alongside Donald Trump and Tevfik Arif at the Trump Soho Launch Party on September 19, 2007 in New York.The tower was meant to be the tallest building in Europe, featuring a few floors of prime shopping, a high-end hotel and new office space, topped with 250 luxury residences, homes for the Russian elite. According to the terms, Rozov was on the hook for construction while Trump would simply lend his name and help manage the place once it opened.
In sworn testimony before Congress, Cohen left no doubt about who was ultimately in charge:"To be clear, Mr. Trump knew of and directed the Trump Moscow negotiations throughout the campaign and lied about it." It is not clear whether Trump knew about the plans to give Putin a penthouse or his cronies a chunk of the deal. Which is remarkable in itself. A presidential candidate delegated a radioactive deal, in a hostile foreign country, to a former convict and a soon-to-be convict .
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