Trump Admits He “Lightly Looked” at Developing a Russian Building Project During the Election But he insisted it was all “very legal and very cool.” (Mother Jones)

For our Republican friends. Hoping they repent of their misguided, uncritical support for DONALD JOHN TRUMP, who lied to them about business deals being negotiated with VLADIMIR PUTIN at a time when TRUMP betrayed our Nation by going all soft and squishing on Russia.

Call it what the law calls it -- conspiracy, treason, mone-laundering, international corporate bribery, or in the language of the Constitution of the United States impeachment clause: "High crimes and misdemeanors." 

It's time for TRUMP to go.

From Mother Jones Magazine:

Trump Admits He “Lightly Looked” at Developing a Russian Building Project During the Election

But he insisted it was all “very legal and very cool.”

INAE OHNOVEMBER 30, 2018 8:32 AM

 

President Donald Trump attempted to downplay the stunning admission by his former personal attorney that he had lied to Congress about efforts to develop a Trump Tower project in Moscow well into the presidential election, insisting in a pair of tweets Friday morning that his business dealings were “very legal and very cool.”

The tweets marked the second time since Michael Cohen entered his guilty plea Thursday morning that Trump has sharply departed from long-standing denials that he had any financial ties to Russia. “We were thinking about building a building,” he told reporters outside the White House shortly after Cohen appeared in court. “I decided ultimately not to do it. There would have been nothing wrong if I did do it.” 

The remarks undercut his previous and very public statements claiming he had “nothing to do with Russia.” As Mother Jones‘ David Corn explained, while news of the potential Moscow project had already been reported, Thursday’s explosive development showed that Trump was far more involved in the negotiations than previously known:

The Mueller filing depicts Cohen as attempting a partial coverup once the story broke. According to the document, Cohen said he lied to minimize the links between the Moscow project and Trump and to give the false impression that the Russia venture ended before “the Iowa caucus and…the very first primary.” Cohen noted he wanted to limit any Trump-Russia investigation. Appearing in federal court, Cohen said, “I made these [false] statements to be consistent with [Trump’s] political messaging and to be loyal to [Trump].” This all raises the question: Did Trump know that Cohen was lying about this project? 

Shortly after Cohen entered his guilty plea, Trump, who is in Buenos Aires for the G-20 summit, abruptly canceled his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, citing Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian ships.