This seems more like old news, but since WaPo dropped this story on a Sunday, there may be much more for #TrumpRussia this coming week.
This is just the context, maybe there’ll be pee tape ice cream … with sprinkles. Or it’s a sorbet to cleanse the palette, since it does signal again that Felix Sater’s relevant again, but in what capacity?
The more interesting part of the story is the news that there is hard evidence of continuing Russian involvement not so important in terms of Sater, but that Trump’s personal lawyer was helping out with Russian matters during the campaign … darn those emails between Sater and Mike Cohen.
This is the Congressional side of the investigation, so the Mueller side is elsewhere. It would be a good thing for the GOP members to see how defecting from Trumpism may be necessary to save their 2018 mid-term bacon.
Apparently the Steele Dossier is more like a road map, perhaps even a Michelin Guide. Remember that Agent Orange has not tweeted about Russia for several weeks.
The exchanges were revealed in emails that will soon be turned over to congressional investigators looking into ties between Trump and Russia. The emails reportedly show that Trump associates and individuals with ties to Russia were in contact during the course of the campaign.
In December 2015, an Associated Press reporter asked Donald Trump why he had appointed Felix Sater, a man who’d been convicted for stock fraud, his senior advisor.
“Felix Sater, boy, I have to even think about it,” Trump told the AP. “I’m not that familiar with him.”
The feeling is not mutual.
“My last Moscow deal [for the Trump Organization] was in October of 2015,” Sater recalled. “It didn’t go through because obviously he became President.” Sater had told the New York Times that he was working on the deal that fall, but over the course of several conversations with TPM, he gave a slightly more detailed timeline. “Once the campaign was really going-going, it was obvious there were going to be no deals internationally,” Sater said. “We were still working on it, doing something with it, November-December.”