Report: Trump Organization planned to give $50 million penthouse to Putin amid Moscow deal

[Denizen]

The Trump dirt even has dirt on top of it.

The feces is airborne as Donald Trump heads for G20 and ignores his buddies Mohammed Bin Salman the butcher and Vladimir Putin.

The denizens of Trumpland must be thinking am I dreaming? Is this just too much winning? Deplorables will be pinching themselves black and blue to make sure they are not dreaming.

Donald Trump can't stop running because the feces will submerge him.

Report: Trump Organization planned to give $50 million penthouse to Putin amid Moscow deal

Report: Trump Organization planned to give $50 million penthouse to Putin amid Moscow deal
Christal Hayes, USA TODAY Published 7:46 p.m. ET Nov. 29, 2018 | Updated 7:50 p.m. ET Nov. 29, 2018

WASHINGTON - The Trump Organization planned to offer a $50 million penthouse suite to Russian President Vladimir Putin amid negotiations over a real estate deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to a report by BuzzFeed News.

The bombshell report includes Felix Sater, a longtime Donald Trump associate accused of having Russian mafia ties, telling BuzzFeed News that he and Michael Cohen, the president's former attorney and fixer, thought giving the suite to Putin could help sell other apartments.

"In Russia, the oligarchs would bend over backwards to live in the same building as Vladimir Putin," Sater told BuzzFeed News. "My idea was to give a $50 million penthouse to Putin and charge $250 million more for the rest of the units. All the oligarchs would line up to live in the same building as Putin."

BuzzFeed notes other unnamed officials confirmed the existence of the plan and the officials said Cohen discussed the idea with a representative of Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s press secretary.

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It's unclear whether Trump was aware of the plan, which never came to fruition due to the Trump Tower deal in Russia falling through.

Sater, a Russian immigrant who spent a year in prison for a 1991 stabbing, told the news organization that Cohen, at the time, remarked that it was a "great idea."

Cohen's attorney, Lanny Davis, declined to comment on the report when reached by USA TODAY. Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Trump, said the story was "unknown to the president."

Giuliani added the project was "too premature for anything like that" and called the idea to give Putin a suite "crazy."

The revelations come at a time where the president's Trump Tower deal in Moscow has come under intense scrutiny by special counsel Robert Mueller, who is examining Russian interference in the 2016 election.
President Donald Trump says ex-lawyer Michael Cohen is a 'weak person' who is 'lying' to get a reduced sentence.' Trump made the comments shortly after Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about a Trump real estate deal in Russia. (Nov. 29) AP

On Thursday, Cohen pleaded guilty in federal court in New York to lying to Congress about the plan to build a Trump Tower in Russia all in the hope of shielding Trump from criticism.

Court documents filed as part of Cohen's plea deal detailed Trump's business dealings in Russia lasted longer during his campaign than previously acknowledged.

Federal prosecutors said Cohen lied when he submitted an Aug. 28, 2017, letter to the Senate and House intelligence committees. The letter said the project had ended by January 2016, when planning continued months longer during the presidential campaign.

Prosecutors said that Cohen lied to the committees to “minimize links between the Moscow Project and (Trump) and give the false impression that the Moscow Project ended before the Iowa caucus and the very first primary in hopes of limiting the ongoing Russia investigations.”

Sater, who had a large role in developing the Trump SoHo Hotel in New York, is also under scrutiny in Mueller's investigation.

He wrote an email to Cohen in 2015 bragging about his ties to Putin, according to the New York Times. "Our boy can be president of the USA and we can engineer it," Sater wrote in one of the emails. "I will get all of Putin's team to buy in on this."

The Times noted that Cohen never replied to the emails and viewed them as "puffery." Sater, who spent a year in prison for stabbing a man and later scouted for Trump investments in Russia, said he was simply expressing "enthusiasm" for the Trump Organization.

 

[basquebromance]

where's the crime??? WHERE'S THE BEEF?

WHERE'S THE BEEEEEEF?

 

[g5000]

where's the crime??? WHERE'S THE BEEF?

WHERE'S THE BEEEEEEF?

So you are okay with the President of the United States forging a direct financial relationship with the leader of a hostile nation.

Got it.

A whole new low benchmark by you pseudocons.

 

[Billy000]

The Trump dirt even has dirt on top of it.

The feces is airborne as Donald Trump heads for G20 and ignores his buddies Mohammed Bin Salman the butcher and Vladimir Putin.

The denizens of Trumpland must be thinking am I dreaming? Is this just too much winning? Deplorables will be pinching themselves black and blue to make sure they are not dreaming.

Donald Trump can't stop running because the feces will submerge him.

Report: Trump Organization planned to give $50 million penthouse to Putin amid Moscow deal

Report: Trump Organization planned to give $50 million penthouse to Putin amid Moscow deal
Christal Hayes, USA TODAY Published 7:46 p.m. ET Nov. 29, 2018 | Updated 7:50 p.m. ET Nov. 29, 2018

WASHINGTON - The Trump Organization planned to offer a $50 million penthouse suite to Russian President Vladimir Putin amid negotiations over a real estate deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to a report by BuzzFeed News.

The bombshell report includes Felix Sater, a longtime Donald Trump associate accused of having Russian mafia ties, telling BuzzFeed News that he and Michael Cohen, the president's former attorney and fixer, thought giving the suite to Putin could help sell other apartments.

"In Russia, the oligarchs would bend over backwards to live in the same building as Vladimir Putin," Sater told BuzzFeed News. "My idea was to give a $50 million penthouse to Putin and charge $250 million more for the rest of the units. All the oligarchs would line up to live in the same building as Putin."

BuzzFeed notes other unnamed officials confirmed the existence of the plan and the officials said Cohen discussed the idea with a representative of Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s press secretary.

More: Trump's business network reached alleged Russian mobsters
More: Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen pleads guilty to lying to Congress about Moscow deal
More: President Donald Trump abruptly cancels Vladimir Putin meeting at G-20 summit, hours after Michael Cohen guilty plea

It's unclear whether Trump was aware of the plan, which never came to fruition due to the Trump Tower deal in Russia falling through.

Sater, a Russian immigrant who spent a year in prison for a 1991 stabbing, told the news organization that Cohen, at the time, remarked that it was a "great idea."

Cohen's attorney, Lanny Davis, declined to comment on the report when reached by USA TODAY. Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Trump, said the story was "unknown to the president."

Giuliani added the project was "too premature for anything like that" and called the idea to give Putin a suite "crazy."

The revelations come at a time where the president's Trump Tower deal in Moscow has come under intense scrutiny by special counsel Robert Mueller, who is examining Russian interference in the 2016 election.
President Donald Trump says ex-lawyer Michael Cohen is a 'weak person' who is 'lying' to get a reduced sentence.' Trump made the comments shortly after Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about a Trump real estate deal in Russia. (Nov. 29) AP

On Thursday, Cohen pleaded guilty in federal court in New York to lying to Congress about the plan to build a Trump Tower in Russia all in the hope of shielding Trump from criticism.

Court documents filed as part of Cohen's plea deal detailed Trump's business dealings in Russia lasted longer during his campaign than previously acknowledged.

Federal prosecutors said Cohen lied when he submitted an Aug. 28, 2017, letter to the Senate and House intelligence committees. The letter said the project had ended by January 2016, when planning continued months longer during the presidential campaign.

Prosecutors said that Cohen lied to the committees to “minimize links between the Moscow Project and (Trump) and give the false impression that the Moscow Project ended before the Iowa caucus and the very first primary in hopes of limiting the ongoing Russia investigations.”

Sater, who had a large role in developing the Trump SoHo Hotel in New York, is also under scrutiny in Mueller's investigation.

He wrote an email to Cohen in 2015 bragging about his ties to Putin, according to the New York Times. "Our boy can be president of the USA and we can engineer it," Sater wrote in one of the emails. "I will get all of Putin's team to buy in on this."

The Times noted that Cohen never replied to the emails and viewed them as "puffery." Sater, who spent a year in prison for stabbing a man and later scouted for Trump investments in Russia, said he was simply expressing "enthusiasm" for the Trump Organization.

The problem is that you can compile as much evidence you want that Trump is a piece of shit, his cultist followers will automatically call it fake news regardless of what it is. We are dealing with adults who act like children here.

 

[Billy000]

where's the crime??? WHERE'S THE BEEF?

WHERE'S THE BEEEEEEF?

So you are okay with the President of the United States forging a direct financial relationship with the leader of a hostile nation.

Got it.

A whole new low benchmark by you pseudocons.

He’s just a troll playing both sides because he doesn’t have a life outside of the internet. It’s better not to acknowledge him.

 

[Oddball]

Not illegal...No Russians changing any votes to make Cheeto win.

where's the crime??? WHERE'S THE BEEF?

WHERE'S THE BEEEEEEF?

So you are okay with the President of the United States forging a direct financial relationship with the leader of a hostile nation.

Got it.

A whole new low benchmark by you pseudocons.

He wasn't the prez at the time, fuckwit.....Bidness is bidness...Deal with it.

 

[g5000]

“Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”

- Donald Trump, Jr.​

 

[basquebromance]

where's the crime??? WHERE'S THE BEEF?

WHERE'S THE BEEEEEEF?

So you are okay with the President of the United States forging a direct financial relationship with the leader of a hostile nation.

Got it.

A whole new low benchmark by you pseudocons.

He’s just a troll playing both sides because he doesn’t have a life outside of the internet. It’s better not to acknowledge him.

i actually love debating a democratic socialist. it'd be a shame if we dont cross path. but we shall not, then!

 

[g5000]

No wonder Trump can't bring himself to do anything more than give Putin the silent treatment.

I wonder what it would take for Trump to issue a nasty tweet about Putin the way he gets himself all worked up over celebrities.

Would Putin have to nuke Kiev before Trump tweeted an attack on Putin?

 

[Auld Phart]

where's the crime??? WHERE'S THE BEEF?

WHERE'S THE BEEEEEEF?

So you are okay with the President of the United States forging a direct financial relationship with the leader of a hostile nation.

Got it.

A whole new low benchmark by you pseudocons.

He was president when he tried to make that deal?

My, how time flies

 

[deanrd]

Not illegal...No Russians changing any votes to make Cheeto win.

where's the crime??? WHERE'S THE BEEF?

WHERE'S THE BEEEEEEF?

So you are okay with the President of the United States forging a direct financial relationship with the leader of a hostile nation.

Got it.

A whole new low benchmark by you pseudocons.

He wasn't the prez at the time, fuckwit.....Bidness is bidness...Deal with it.

He was the nominee for the Republican Party.

And he's making business deals with the leader of Russia? They have the evidence.

And Russian intelligence helped him get elected here in this country when they committed felony burglary. Hacking to steal valuable information is a criminal offense, not just here, but all over the world.

And Trump asked them to do it again and again at his rallies.

Trump did that because he doesn't know any better.

STOP THE FUKING STUPID!
THIS GUY IS A CRIMINAL!

 

[JGalt]

The Trump dirt even has dirt on top of it.

The feces is airborne as Donald Trump heads for G20 and ignores his buddies Mohammed Bin Salman the butcher and Vladimir Putin.

The denizens of Trumpland must be thinking am I dreaming? Is this just too much winning? Deplorables will be pinching themselves black and blue to make sure they are not dreaming.

Donald Trump can't stop running because the feces will submerge him.

Report: Trump Organization planned to give $50 million penthouse to Putin amid Moscow deal

Report: Trump Organization planned to give $50 million penthouse to Putin amid Moscow deal
Christal Hayes, USA TODAY Published 7:46 p.m. ET Nov. 29, 2018 | Updated 7:50 p.m. ET Nov. 29, 2018

WASHINGTON - The Trump Organization planned to offer a $50 million penthouse suite to Russian President Vladimir Putin amid negotiations over a real estate deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to a report by BuzzFeed News.

The bombshell report includes Felix Sater, a longtime Donald Trump associate accused of having Russian mafia ties, telling BuzzFeed News that he and Michael Cohen, the president's former attorney and fixer, thought giving the suite to Putin could help sell other apartments.

"In Russia, the oligarchs would bend over backwards to live in the same building as Vladimir Putin," Sater told BuzzFeed News. "My idea was to give a $50 million penthouse to Putin and charge $250 million more for the rest of the units. All the oligarchs would line up to live in the same building as Putin."

BuzzFeed notes other unnamed officials confirmed the existence of the plan and the officials said Cohen discussed the idea with a representative of Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s press secretary.

More: Trump's business network reached alleged Russian mobsters
More: Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen pleads guilty to lying to Congress about Moscow deal
More: President Donald Trump abruptly cancels Vladimir Putin meeting at G-20 summit, hours after Michael Cohen guilty plea

It's unclear whether Trump was aware of the plan, which never came to fruition due to the Trump Tower deal in Russia falling through.

Sater, a Russian immigrant who spent a year in prison for a 1991 stabbing, told the news organization that Cohen, at the time, remarked that it was a "great idea."

Cohen's attorney, Lanny Davis, declined to comment on the report when reached by USA TODAY. Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Trump, said the story was "unknown to the president."

Giuliani added the project was "too premature for anything like that" and called the idea to give Putin a suite "crazy."

The revelations come at a time where the president's Trump Tower deal in Moscow has come under intense scrutiny by special counsel Robert Mueller, who is examining Russian interference in the 2016 election.
President Donald Trump says ex-lawyer Michael Cohen is a 'weak person' who is 'lying' to get a reduced sentence.' Trump made the comments shortly after Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about a Trump real estate deal in Russia. (Nov. 29) AP

On Thursday, Cohen pleaded guilty in federal court in New York to lying to Congress about the plan to build a Trump Tower in Russia all in the hope of shielding Trump from criticism.

Court documents filed as part of Cohen's plea deal detailed Trump's business dealings in Russia lasted longer during his campaign than previously acknowledged.

Federal prosecutors said Cohen lied when he submitted an Aug. 28, 2017, letter to the Senate and House intelligence committees. The letter said the project had ended by January 2016, when planning continued months longer during the presidential campaign.

Prosecutors said that Cohen lied to the committees to “minimize links between the Moscow Project and (Trump) and give the false impression that the Moscow Project ended before the Iowa caucus and the very first primary in hopes of limiting the ongoing Russia investigations.”

Sater, who had a large role in developing the Trump SoHo Hotel in New York, is also under scrutiny in Mueller's investigation.

He wrote an email to Cohen in 2015 bragging about his ties to Putin, according to the New York Times. "Our boy can be president of the USA and we can engineer it," Sater wrote in one of the emails. "I will get all of Putin's team to buy in on this."

The Times noted that Cohen never replied to the emails and viewed them as "puffery." Sater, who spent a year in prison for stabbing a man and later scouted for Trump investments in Russia, said he was simply expressing "enthusiasm" for the Trump Organization.

And? The Clinton Foundation received a $140 million for hooking up Putin with some of our uranium. Plus all that money she and Bill received for giving speeches to Russian oligarchs.

Yet another big, fat nothingburger.

 

[JGalt]

where's the crime??? WHERE'S THE BEEF?

WHERE'S THE BEEEEEEF?

So you are okay with the President of the United States forging a direct financial relationship with the leader of a hostile nation.

Got it.

A whole new low benchmark by you pseudocons.

Were we at war with Russia? Are we at war with them now? Is it illegal to conduct business with them? Obviously not, since we're still getting imports from them.

 

[Maxdeath]

Care to reach higher? You have almost stretched beyond belief now.
Business does things to get concessions. It is part of business. They pay congress. They pay lobbyists.
If you are worried about everyone having some financial agreement with business we would have to remove everyone in business and everyone in congress.

 

[Oddball]

He was the nominee for the Republican Party.

And he's making business deals with the leader of Russia? They have the evidence.

And Russian intelligence helped him get elected here in this country when they committed felony burglary. Hacking to steal valuable information is a criminal offense, not just here, but all over the world.

And Trump asked them to do it again and again at his rallies.

Trump did that because he doesn't know any better.

STOP THE FUKING STUPID!
THIS GUY IS A CRIMINAL!

 

[deanrd]

Notice that not a single one of these right wingernuts asked the most obvious question in the world.

"Why would Trump GIVE AWAY $50,000,000.00?" After all, he's notoriously tight fisted unless he's spending other people's money. He even calls it OPM and has talked about it at his rallies.

Why would he give away a penthouse?

Try to figure it out.

 

[JGalt]

Notice that not a single one of these right wingernuts asked the most obvious question in the world.

"Why would Trump GIVE AWAY $50,000,000.00?" After all, he's notoriously tight fisted unless he's spending other people's money. He even calls it OPM and has talked about it at his rallies.

Why would he give away a penthouse?

Try to figure it out.

His money, dude. Not yours. I have a hard time understanding why you zipperheads have your panties in a knot over nothing. Especially in light of the fact that Barack Obama gave the Iranians billion of dollars, stacked up on pallets. Billions of dollars of your money.

 

[Denizen]

where's the crime??? WHERE'S THE BEEF?

WHERE'S THE BEEEEEEF?

Trump and his Trumplings were all involved and they all lied.

 

[deanrd]

Notice that not a single one of these right wingernuts asked the most obvious question in the world.

"Why would Trump GIVE AWAY $50,000,000.00?" After all, he's notoriously tight fisted unless he's spending other people's money. He even calls it OPM and has talked about it at his rallies.

Why would he give away a penthouse?

Try to figure it out.

His money, dude. Not yours.

If US banks refused to give Trump loans,

then where was the money coming from?

And since it was a loan, whose money was it?

Think it through. Try to figure out why that's important.

 

[Maxdeath]

Notice that not a single one of these right wingernuts asked the most obvious question in the world.

"Why would Trump GIVE AWAY $50,000,000.00?" After all, he's notoriously tight fisted unless he's spending other people's money. He even calls it OPM and has talked about it at his rallies.

Why would he give away a penthouse?

Try to figure it out.

Get a clue brain dead. It is called business. If you believe you could make a hundred thousand by giving away ten thousand I have no doubt that you would do it.