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MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Trump Thought Suspicious Deal He Did in Late 2008 with Russian Oligarch—Which Netted Him Tens of Millions on a Property He Couldn& #39;t Sell—Was a Deal with Putin, Meaning Trump Entered the White House Considering Himself Indebted to Putin https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/09/05/politics/michael-cohen-book-trump-white-house/index.html?__twitter_impression=true">https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/...
PS/ I don& #39;t think people are understanding how big this is. We previously thought Trump anticipated *future* earnings from deals with Putin, and that this explained his obsequiousness toward Russia& #39;s president.
It now seems like he felt he had *already done business* with Putin.
It now seems like he felt he had *already done business* with Putin.
PS2/ It goes beyond that. If Trump thought Rybolovlev was Putin& #39;s direct agent, it means when Trump& #39;s plane met Rybolovlev& #39;s twice in the days before the 2016 election, Trump thought he was getting communications directly from Putin *right before an election Putin was attacking*.
PS3/ And it goes beyond even that, because Trump& #39;s meetings with a man he believed to be Putin& #39;s direct agent came *after* the U.S. intelligence community had publicly declared (in October) the Kremlin was waging cyberwar on America.
Those meetings now appear small-t treasonous.
Those meetings now appear small-t treasonous.
PS4/ I know I& #39;m a broken record, but this is why we need as many metajournalists in the U.S. as possible.
When you& #39;ve written 2,500 pages on all the evidence that exists in the Trump-Russia case, it gives you a unique perspective on every new piece of information that comes out.
When you& #39;ve written 2,500 pages on all the evidence that exists in the Trump-Russia case, it gives you a unique perspective on every new piece of information that comes out.
PS5/ I don& #39;t think media yet realizes that what appears to be a throwaway line in a book could actually be the most important line in that book. But I& #39;m confident anyone who has read the Proof series is sufficiently in a position to make that observation, and add that revelation.
PS6/ What now appears to be the case is that in late October 2016—believing himself to have already profited to the tune of tens of millions of dollars from a real estate deal with Vladimir Putin—Donald Trump met twice with the man he considered Putin& #39;s agent in that transaction.
