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global1

(25,242 posts)
Thu May 10, 2018, 10:13 AM May 2018

Have Other Companies Besides AT&T, Novartis & KAI Sought Influence Of Trump?.....

Seriously folks - what came first? Did Trump and Cohen conspire to target companies that might be in need of favorable legislation or decisions and then go out and contact them with 'pay for play' deals that would be advantageous to them? Hmmmm - did it go something like this: Trump to Cohen: AT&T could pay big bucks if we're able to swing things in their direction. So Mike - go to them and offer them my influence on upcoming legislation.

Or - did these companies somehow know that their was this guy - M. Cohen - that is close to Trump and they sought him out and approached him and said they would pay big bucks if he was able to get them close to Trump to help them out.

Again - did Trump/Cohen - market their influence to companies or did companies come to them? How did this all go down at the start - before these companies paid big buck retainers to Cohen?

Are there other companies out there that were approached by Cohen/Trump or approached Cohen?

I think this is and important fact to determine. What went on behind the scenes in these deals? Do you think Mueller has gotten to the bottom of this?

Will we be hearing about other companies that did the same?

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Have Other Companies Besides AT&T, Novartis & KAI Sought Influence Of Trump?..... (Original Post) global1 May 2018 OP
Cohen was a deputy finance chair of the RNC jberryhill May 2018 #1
Yep n yep C-SPAN4me May 2018 #4
Check who is buying and/or staying at Trump properties, his golf schedule, etc. Freethinker65 May 2018 #2
Ab so fucking lutely. nt Kirk Lover May 2018 #3
And Cohen isn't the only bag man. C_U_L8R May 2018 #5
 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
1. Cohen was a deputy finance chair of the RNC
Thu May 10, 2018, 10:15 AM
May 2018

With access to information about large RNC donors, Cohen would have known exactly to whom he should introduce himself.

AT&T and Novartis claim that Cohen approached them, which makes sense given Cohen's position in the RNC.

Freethinker65

(10,010 posts)
2. Check who is buying and/or staying at Trump properties, his golf schedule, etc.
Thu May 10, 2018, 10:16 AM
May 2018

Plenty of ways to funnel $$$$$ to Trump

C_U_L8R

(44,999 posts)
5. And Cohen isn't the only bag man.
Thu May 10, 2018, 10:46 AM
May 2018

Trump knows one thing... how to extract profit for himself (while bankrupting and destroying everything else).
He's made this an art and you can bet dollars to donuts there are more conspirators and suckers paying tribute (bribes).

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