Tonight’s Trump Dump is from the Washington Post:
While Donald Trump was running for president in late 2015 and early 2016, his company was pursuing a plan to develop a massive Trump Tower in Moscow, according to several people familiar with the proposal and new records reviewed by Trump Organization lawyers.
This is pretty significant. The cast of characters is familiar – Felix Sater and Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. As always, it’s not clear how involved Trump himself was. This was a time period when Trump was being particularly effusive to Vladimir Putin.
Andrew Weiss has some early observations in a thread starting with this tweet.
1/ Stunning: Trump failed to disclose a large pending deal in Moscow while he ran for White House via @CarolLeonnig https://t.co/ARkRb5dIAW
— Andrew S. Weiss (@andrewsweiss) August 28, 2017
Josh Marshall has been following Felix Sater’s role particularly closely and has a short piece up.
I may be able to provide more analysis tomorrow morning. I’m a morning person and, in any case, had a great day today including birds and conversations with interesting people. I’ll stick around for a little while on this thread and come back tomorrow morning.
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