Московская башня

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Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017

Информационная бомбочка от Washington Post: в конце 2015 и начале 2016, пока он активно участвовал в президентской гонке, Трамп одновременно тайно обсуждал с Москвой планы о строительстве там небоскреба. Его посредником в этой сделке был небызызвестный Феликс Саттер.

While Donald Trump was running for president in late 2015 and early 2016, his company was pursuing a plan to develop a massive Trump Tower in Moscow, according to several people familiar with the proposal and new records reviewed by Trump Organization lawyers.
As part of the discussions, a Russian-born real estate developer urged Trump to come to Moscow to tout the proposal and suggested that he could get President Vladimir Putin to say “great things” about Trump, according to several people who have been briefed on his correspondence.
The developer, Felix Sater, predicted in a November 2015 email that he and Trump Organization leaders would soon be celebrating — both one of the biggest residential projects in real estate history and Donald Trump’s election as president, according to two of the people with knowledge of the exchange.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-business-sought-deal-on-a-trump-tower-in-moscow-while-he-ran-for-president/2017/08/27/d6e95114-8b65-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a_story.html

Ранее Саттер рассказал об этой деятельности Talking Points Memo.

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.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/felix-sater-man-of-mystery



В интервью, которое он дал snob.ru вскоре после выборов, Саттер описывает манеру, в которой он работал с Трампом:

Как вы познакомились с Трампом?
Поднялся на лифте, засунул голову в офис и спросил: «Вы свободны?» А он ответил: «Заходи». Это было в 1999 году, когда я начал работать в недвижимости и был исполнительным директором компании Bayrock. У нас был офис в Trump Tower, на этаж ниже офиса самого Трампа. Я просто поднялся и сказал, что со мной он заработает больше денег, чем с любым другим партнером. Он посмеялся и познакомил меня с директором своей компании... Первый совместный проект у нас был в Финиксе, штат Аризона: мы купили землю, хотели построить башню, но не договорились по высоте…
Вы постоянно контактировали с Трампом?
Да, он любит, чтобы все было правильно. И я ему обо всем докладывал. Иногда дважды в день, иногда дважды в неделю, иногда дважды в месяц. И так десять лет.
https://snob.ru/selected/entry/116532

В недавней статье Пола Вуда передаются слухи о том, что Саттер согласился сотрудничать с расследованием Мюллера и сказал своим знакомым, что их с Трампом ждет тюрьма.

For several weeks there have been rumours that Sater is ready to rat again, agreeing to help Mueller. ‘He has told family and friends he knows he and POTUS are going to prison,’ someone talking to Mueller’s investigators informed me.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/08/forget-charlottesville-russia-is-still-the-true-trump-scandal/

Усы Пескова

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Одно из загадочных мест в досье Стила - сведения о роли Дмитрия Пескова в российской спецоперации. Хотя Песков имеет прямой выход на Путина, он всего лишь пресс-секретарь и, казалось бы, не обладает административными рычагами власти. Однако в досье ему отводилась центральная роль, включая конфликт за контроль над спецоперацией с Сергеем Ивановым и решение о вбросе компромата на Клинтон (вероятно почты Подесты).

1. Source G, a senior Kremlin official, confided that the CLINTON dossier was controlled exclusively by Chief Kremlin spokesman, Dmitriy PESKOV, who was responsible for compiling/handling it on the explicit instructions of PUTIN.

2. Continuing on this theme the source close to IVANOV reported that PESKOV now was “scared shitless” that he would be scapegoated by PUTIN and the Kremlin and held responsible for the backlash against Russian political interference in the US election. IVANOV was determined to stop PESKOV playing an independent role in relation to the US going forward and the source fully expected the presidential spokesman now to lay low.

3. Continuing on this theme, the senior PA official said the situation now was that the Kremlin had further ‘kompromat’ on candidate CLINTON and had been considering releasing this via “plausibly deniable” channels after the Duma (legislative) elections were out of the way in mid- September. There was however a growing train of thought and associated lobby, arguing that the Russians could still make candidate CLINTON look ‘weak and stupid’ by provoking her into railing against PUTIN and Russia without the need to release more of her e-mails. Presidential Spokesman, Dmitriy PESKOV remained a key figure in the operation, although any final decision on dissemination of further material would be taken by PUTIN.

https://themoscowproject.org/dossier.html

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