I’m all over the world but we’re not involved in Russia.” In January 2017, Trump said at his first major press conference as president-elect, “I have no dealings with Russia … I have no deals that could happen in Russia because we’ve stayed away. In July 2016, Trump told CBS News, “I have nothing to do with Russia. Trump withheld material information about his business interests in Russia from the American people at a critical time during the campaign.Īs questions swirled around candidate Trump, his campaign associates and their potential connections to the Russian government, the Trump Organization concealed its outreach to the Kremlin on the Moscow Project. So, what are the big takeaways and new questions that the information raises? And how does this information shed light on other public information concerning alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin? Here are some highlights: Those are the basics of what we learned Thursday. Finally, Cohen exchanged emails and phone calls with members of the Russian government about pursuing the deal. He discussed the project repeatedly with then-candidate Trump and Trump’s “family members.” Cohen was intending to travel to Moscow to discuss the project with Russian government officials in June 2016 and raised the possibility of Trump traveling to Russia during the campaign with the presidential candidate himself. The court documents released Thursday make clear that Cohen worked on the Moscow Project on behalf of the Trump Organization into the summer of 2016, far longer than he previously admitted. In written answers and in-person interviews with congressional investigators, Cohen lied about when the Trump organization halted its pursuit of building a Trump Tower in Moscow (known as the Moscow Project), whether he or Trump considered traveling to Russia to discuss the project with Russian officials during the presidential campaign, with whom he discussed the project within the Trump organization, and whether the Russian government responded to his outreach. Lying to Congress–intentionally making false statements that are material to the investigation at hand–is a federal crime. The biggest revelations came from the special counsel’s outlining of Cohen’s false statements to Congress. On Thursday, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty in federal court to new charges related directly to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and the prospect of collusion with the Trump campaign.
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