Felix Sater, Trump Associate, Boasted That Moscow Business Deal ‘Will Get Donald Elected’
It is unclear why Sater would think that a Trump Tower in Moscow would get Trump elected in the US. There either is more to this 'deal' that Sater is not telling, or Sater was seriously overselling his argument. Time will tell...
What appear to be clear is that Trump associates are happy to engage in deals with Russia, even while Russia was under US sanctions.
For more details see the Salon article entitled: "Trump’s shadowy Moscow deal: Could this be the key that unlocks the whole Russia scandal?"
http://www.salon.com/2017/08/29/trumps-shadowy-moscow-deal-could-this-be-the-key-that-unlocks-the-whole-russia-scandal/Extract: "The Sater emails included this startling claim:
“I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected. Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putin’s team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.”
Why building this tower was supposed to lead to Trump’s election is a mystery. Oddly, none of the emails the Times excerpted directly mention the tower project, raising plenty of questions about exactly what they might have been talking about.
Marcy Wheeler, among others, wondered why Cohen would have reached out to Putin’s communications chief about a real estate licensing deal. That communications chief, according to the “Steele dossier,” was “the ‘main protagonist’ of the kompromat campaign against Hillary.” Wheeler speculated that this alleged Trump Tower deal, never before revealed, might be cover for another kind of “deal” altogether.
Whether or not this turns out to be some kind of collusion or conspiracy with the Russian government to defeat Hillary Clinton and get Trump elected, we’ve never seen anything like this: Associates of a presidential candidate directly asking the leader of a foreign adversary to help them arrange for what amounts to a multimillion-dollar payoff. It’s shocking on its face, especially since Trump lied about it repeatedly.
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Sater hinted in an interview earlier this month that he may be cooperating with both Mueller’s investigation and congressional probes of Trump.
“In about the next 30 to 35 days, I will be the most colourful character you have ever talked about,” Sater told New York Magazine. “Unfortunately, I can’t talk about it now, before it happens. And believe me, it ain’t anything as small as whether or not they’re gonna call me to the Senate committee.”"