On November 3, 2015, the day after the Trump Organization transmitted the LOI, Sater
emailed Cohen suggesting that the Trump Moscow project could be used to increase candidate
Trump's chances at being elected, writing:
Buddy our boy can become President of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of
Putins team to buy in on this, I will manage this process .... Michael, Putin gets on stage
with Donald for a ribbon cutting for Trump Moscow, and Donald owns the republican
nomination. And possibly beats Hillary and our boy is in .. . . We will manage this process
better than anyone. You and I will get Donald and Vladimir on a stage together very
shortly. That the game changer.
327
Later that day, Sater followed up:
Donald doesn't stare down, he negotiates and understands the economic issues and Putin
only want to deal with a pragmatic leader, and a successful business man is a good
candidate for someone who knows how to negotiate. "Business, politics, whatever it all is
the same for someone who knows how to deal"
327 11/3/15 Email, Sater to Cohen (12:14 p.m.).
Felix Sater is an agent for Donald Trump in negotiating the Moscow Trump Tower. He also was ambitious and quite possibly reflecting Trump's ambitions. Regardless, if Trump was willing to be involved with Russia and Russia was helping within the known methods with Wikileaks, that is called a conspiracy. I think Sater reflects "we will take whatever the Russians provide."
I think I can get Putin to say that at the Trump Moscow press conference.
Sater actually believed they could control the president of Russia. Russia would allow him to believe that as well. There is no controlling Putin. Putin plays a really dangerous game and anyone that denies that and believes they have control is a fool.
If he says it we own this election. Americas most difficult adversary agreeing that Donald
is a good guy to negotiate ....
We can own this election
Oh, sure, Vladimir Putin is going to say exactly what Trump wants him to say to win the election and walk away figuring he did his friend a good turn. That is flat out stupid. Putin might play along for his own purposes. There would be no patting Trump on the back as a good friend. Putin would expect something to come his way as well and more than just a building in Moscow from a man he helped elect to the USA presidency.
Michael my next steps are very sensitive with Putins very very close people, we can pull
this off.
Michael lets go. 2 boys from Brooklyn getting a USA president elected. This is good really
good.328
According to Cohen, he did not consider the political import of the Trump Moscow project
to the 2016 U.S. presidential election at the time. Cohen also did not recall candidate Trump or
anyone affiliated with the Trump Campaign discussing the political implications of the Trump
Moscow project with him. However, Cohen recalled conversations with Trump in which the
candidate suggested that his campaign would be a significant "infomercial" for Trump-branded
prope1ties.
329
If the Trump presidency brings anything of benefit to the American people it is an education in how to recognize a slimeball.
ii. Post-LOI Contacts with Individuals in Russia
Given the size of the Trump Moscow project, Sater and Cohen believed the project required
approval (whether express or implicit) from the Russian national government, including from the
Presidential Administration of Russia.330 Sater stated that he therefore began to contact the
Presidential Administration through another Russian business contact.331 In early negotiations
with the Trump Organization, Sater had alluded to the need for government approval and his
attempts to set up meetings with Russian officials. On October 12, 2015, for example, Sater wrote
to Cohen that "all we need is Putin on board and we are golden," and that a "meeting with Putin
and top deputy is tentatively set for the 14th [ of October]. "332 this meeting
was being coordinated by associates in Russia and that he had no direct interaction with the Russian
333 government
Approximately a month later, after the LOI had been signed, Lana Erchova...
It seems as though this is scandalous everywhere except the USA. This is from the "Irish Times."
April 20, 2019
By Joshua Chaffin and Kiran Stacey
It was late 2015, (click here) and the Trump Organization had just signed a letter of intent to fulfil its longstanding ambition of developing a tower in Moscow. Lana Erchova, the wife of a prominent businessman with high-level political connections, contacted Ivanka Trump.
“If you ask anyone who knows Russian to Google my husband Dmitry Klokov, you’ll see who he is close to and that he has done Putin’s political campaigns,” Erchova wrote in a boastful email, as she offered Klokov’s help with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Ivanka Trump forwarded the email to Michael Cohen, her father’s personal lawyer, who did an internet search and concluded – incorrectly – that Klokov was a former Olympic weightlifter.
That exchange gives a sense of the many desperate attempts at connection between Trump intimates and a network of Russians with greater and lesser Kremlin ties in the fateful window of time around the 2016 US election.
The Russians were seeking a foothold in the Trump campaign with the hope of shifting US policy that had been unfriendly since the annexation of Crimea...
...emailed lvanka
Trump on behalf of Erchova's then-husband Dmitry Klokov, to offer Klokov's assistance to the
Trump Campaign.334
See You Tube video at bottom of entry. Thank you.
Klokov was at that time Director of External Communications for PJSC
Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System, a large Russian electricity transmission company (Bloomberg lists the company - click here), and had been previously employed as an aide and press secretary to Russia's energy
minister. Ivanka Trump forwarded the email to Cohen.335 He told the Office that, after receiving
this inquiry, he had conducted an internet search for Klokov's name and concluded (incorrectly)
that Klokov was a former Olympic weightlifter.336
327 11/3/15 Email, Sater to Cohen (12:14 p.m.)
328 11/3/15 Email, Sater to Cohen (12:40 p.m.).
329 Cohen 9/12/ 18 302, at 3-4; Cohen 8/7/18 302, at 15.
330 Grand Jury Sater 12/15/17 302, at 2.
331 Sater 12/15/17 302, at 3-4.
332 10/12/15 Email, Sater to Cohen (8:07 a.m.).
333 Grand Jury
334 Ivanka Trump received an email from a woman who identified herself as "Lana E. Alexander,"
which said in part, "If you ask anyone who knows Russian to google my husband Dmitry Klokov, you' ll
see who he is close to and that he has done Putin's political campaigns." 11/16/15 Email, Erchova to
I. Trump.
Populous strong man figures are involved in the politics of Russia; ie: Steven Seagal. Interesting article about how Trump adopted Van Damme as his strong man for his campaign. Basically along the same lines, as Sater was espousing, there would be an incredible peace that would settle in around the planet.
December 28, 2017
By Tom Breihan
Donald Trump once claimed that Citizen Kane was his favorite movie. (click here) We know better. In a 1997 New Yorker profile, writer Mark Singer took a private flight with Trump and saw the future president’s taste in movies up close. Singer recorded Trump getting bored watching the then-current John Travolta vehicle Michael and switching instead to Bloodsport, the 1988 underground-fighting extravaganza that introduced Jean-Claude Van Damme to the world. Trump (correctly) called Bloodsport “an incredible, fantastic movie” and assigned his son Eric, then 13, to fast-forward straight to all the fight scenes.
The admiration, it turns out, is mutual. Last year, a couple of weeks before the presidential election, Van Damme, giving a TMZ interview in a dark parking lot—wearing blue-tinted sunglasses and a baseball cap with his own initials, a chihuahua tucked under his arm—gave his all-important endorsement: “Look, I love my brother Muslims. They love martial arts. I love them. I love everybody on earth. Right now, we need Donald Trump.”
It was a shocking moment, one that might’ve grown even more shocking with time. With that, Van Damme became one of very few high-profile entertainers to stand with Trump. And Van Damme, who once attended a bare-knuckle fight with Vladimir Putin in Russia, also said that America and Russia need to be friends because “all the rest are weak country [sic], except America is strong, and Russia is strong. So they have to shake hands.”...
335 11/16/15 Email, I. Trump to Cohen.
336 Cohen 8/7/18 302, at 17. During his interviews with the Office, Cohen still appeared to believe
that the Klokov he spoke with was that Olympian. The investigation, however, established that the email
address used to communicate with Cohen belongs to a different Dmitry Klokov, as described above. Easy mistake to make.
It seems as though Dimitry Klokov is a popular figure along with his wife. He likes "Teenage Mutant Nija Turtles." He is a competitive weight lifter.
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