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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Jan 20, 2019, 04:15 PM Jan 2019

Giuliani: Discussions on Trump Tower in Moscow were 'active' throughout 2016 election

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow remained an “active proposal” as late as November of 2016, leaving open the possibility that Trump’s orbit continued to pursue the business deal up until the presidential election, months later than previously known.

Appearing on NBC's “Meet the Press,” Giuliani said the president has told him he can “remember having conversations” with his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, about the project well into 2016. Cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the timeline of his involvement in that proposal, admitting that he worked on it through June of 2016 after initially saying it ended at the beginning of that year.
“It's our understanding that they went on throughout 2016," Giuliani said of the discussions, adding that there "weren't a lot of them, but there were conversations. Can't be sure of the exact date," Giuliani said, referring to written questions Trump and his lawyers have answered from special counsel Robert Mueller's office.

"Probably could be up to as far as October, November. Our answers cover until the election. So anytime during that period they could've talked about it. But the president's recollection of it is that the thing had petered out quite a bit.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/giuliani-discussions-on-trump-tower-in-moscow-were-active-throughout-2016-election/ar-BBSuL66?li=BBnbcA1

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Giuliani: Discussions on Trump Tower in Moscow were 'active' throughout 2016 election (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2019 OP
In his moronic way, Giuliani just stabbed Trump in the back. MineralMan Jan 2019 #1
So Trump went on negotiating in secret creeksneakers2 Jan 2019 #2
and LIED repeatedly about it. eom IllinoisBirdWatcher Jan 2019 #3

MineralMan

(146,192 posts)
1. In his moronic way, Giuliani just stabbed Trump in the back.
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 04:18 PM
Jan 2019

He doesn't know that, of course, due to the addled state of his brain, but he directly contradicted what Trump is trying to maintain.

creeksneakers2

(7,468 posts)
2. So Trump went on negotiating in secret
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 04:50 PM
Jan 2019

and becoming more obligated well after it was established that Russians hacked the DNC and intervened in the election on his behalf. That should count as collusion. That's if Rudy's disclosures hold up.

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