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Trump Organization Planned To Give Vladimir Putin a $50 Million Penthouse in Trump Tower Moscow
According to a bombshell report from Buzzfeed, the Trump Organization reportedly planned on giving Russian President Vladimir Putin a posh $50 million penthouse in the planned Trump Tower Moscow.
Buzzfeed cited four people as the source of the information, one of them the originator of the project.
Two of them were also described as “US law enforcement officials.” They told Buzzfeed this: “Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal lawyer at the time, discussed the idea with a representative of Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s press secretary.”
The latest Buzzfeed scoop raises further questions about Donald Trump‘s relationship with Putin and the Kremlin. However, it is not entirely clear that Trump knew about the plan to give away the prime real estate to Putin personally, although Cohen has testified that he regularly kept Trump apprised of such things.
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One thing that is known, though, is that the plan ultimately crumbled and Putin’s penthouse was never built much less gifted to the Russian president.
The news also comes on the same day as Trump’s former fixer Cohen testified in court that he was pursuing a business deal in Russia in June 2016, after Trump had garnered the Republican nomination.
Trump said beginning in July 2016 that he had no business relations or deals with Russia.
Twitter was stunned:
The only the way this day could get any crazier is if it turned out Donald Trump offered to give Putin the penthouse in Trump Tower Moscow. Oh wait, Buzzfeed just reported that Trump offered to give Putin the penthouse in Trump Tower Moscow.
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) November 29, 2018
Sure. This is totally normal. Nothing to see here. Move right along.
What presidential campaign *hasn't* done something like this.
"The Trump Organization planned to give Putin a $50 million penthouse at Trump Tower Moscow"https://t.co/GaumhQMCMd
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) November 29, 2018
Let he among us who has not bribed a despot whose intelligence service will help you steal a US presidential campaign with a $50 million dollar penthouse cast the first stone. https://t.co/0XO3ylJp0S
— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) November 29, 2018
HOL-EEE-SHIT: The Trump Org reportedly planned to give a $50 million penthouse at Trump Tower Moscow TO PUTIN at the height of the 2016 campaign.https://t.co/K2vqU4NAxs
— Red (@Redpainter1) November 29, 2018
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