The New York Times Just Dropped A Bombshell Trump-Russia Story
Trump business associate bragged in emails that Russia would “get Donald elected.”
We just got a massive bombshell in the Trump-Russia saga. Yesterday, The Washington Post reported that during the campaign, (while Trump denied having any business interests in Russia) Trump’s company was hard at work trying to develop a new Trump Tower building in Moscow.
And now, The New York Times is out with a potentially even bigger follow on story.
According to Times, Felix Sater, a Trump business associate with deep ties to the Russian mob, bragged in an email in 2015 that Russia “will get Donald elected.”
The New York Times went on to report, “The business associate, Felix Sater, wrote a series of emails to Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, in which he boasted about his ties to Mr. Putin and predicted that building a Trump Tower in Moscow would be a political boon to Mr. Trump’s candidacy.”
Here is a key quote from Sater’s emails, “Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it,” Mr. Sater wrote in an email. “I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.”
Felix Sater is an important figure in the Trump-Russia story for several reasons. There are several reports that Sater is already cooperating with Mueller’s investigation. And Sater has a history of cooperating with Federal investigations. He previously avoided jail time in a $40 million stock fraud scheme by acting as a cooperating witness.
Sater also arranged a 2006 trip to Moscow for Ivanka Trump.
“The emails show that, from the earliest months of Mr. Trump’s campaign, some of his associates viewed close ties with Moscow as a political advantage. Those ties are now under investigation by the Justice Department and multiple congressional committees,” The New York Times notes.
Read the full New York Times story here.
And if you missed the Washington Post story Sunday, you can read that here.
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