The Report Part IV: A Tale of Two Trump Towers
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🗓️ 9 August 2019
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Summary
As the Russians were engaged in operations to hack and dump emails, the Trump campaign and its associates were in communication with Wikileaks about the distribution of stolen materials. But that’s far from the whole story of the Trump campaign’s connections to Russia during the 2016 election.
As Special Counsel Robert Mueller began to piece together the rest of that story, his investigation came to focus on two Trump Towers.
The first is Trump Tower Moscow. Beginning all the way back in 2013 and through the spring of 2016, the Trump organization is pursuing a project to build a skyscraper in Russia. For a long time, the plans for Trump Tower Moscow had gone nowhere. But when Donald Trump announces he is running for president, things start to get interesting.
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| 0:00.0 | Previously on the report. They were absolutely convinced that they needed to get |
| 0:06.5 | these emails in order to damage Hillary Clinton and they really didn't care |
| 0:10.4 | whether or not this was really the Washington government or whether they were |
| 0:14.2 | being kicked. Stone was one of the Trump campaign's sources about future WikiLeaks |
| 0:18.1 | releases. Peter Smith became mildly obsessed by this notion. Guys I got a |
| 0:24.4 | weird Twitter DM from WikiLeaks. See below. Leaning on the horn on the alarm, |
| 0:29.9 | breaking the glass, everything, saying the Russians are meddling in our |
| 0:35.0 | elections and this is real and this is serious and we got to pay attention to this. |
| 0:39.5 | It's July 26th 2016 Donald Trump insists in an interview that he has no |
| 0:53.8 | business in Russia. But just two months earlier in May 2016 a businessman |
| 1:07.4 | working with the Trump organization sends an email to Trump's lawyer Michael |
| 1:13.0 | Cohen. They're putting together a deal to build a Trump skyscraper in Moscow. |
| 1:18.3 | He wants to arrange a visit to Russia by then candidate Trump. He writes, |
| 1:24.1 | I had a chat with Moscow, assuming the trip does happen, the question is before |
| 1:30.6 | or after the convention. He's referring to the Republican National Convention |
| 1:36.1 | which is set to take place in Cleveland over the summer. Cohen responds, |
| 1:41.3 | my trip before Cleveland, Trump once he becomes the nominee after the convention. |
| 1:48.3 | This is the report episode four, a tale of two Trump towers. |
| 2:00.8 | I have no deals in Russia. I have no deals that could happen in Russia because we've stayed away. |
| 2:09.0 | As the Russians were engaged in operations to hack and dump emails, the Trump |
| 2:20.1 | campaign and its associates were in communication with WikiLeaks about the |
| 2:24.6 | distribution of stolen materials. But that's far from the whole story of the |
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