Listening to Proof of Collusion. The *rump tower Moscow deal was to be his king of the hill moment!

[Roland99]

*rump did NOT expect to win the presidency

He was using the campaign and its notoriety to help bring in willing investors so he could make the moscow tower deal

He’s always just been about the flash and fame

Now Cohen is leveling the boom!

Sweet sweet justice!!


EDIT: one thing to keep in mind. *rump lived off debt. He’s deeply in debt everywhere. This would have meant a huge infusion of cash

[Raster]

1. DING!

Winnah!

[dalton99a]

2. .

By Trump’s own public admission, as late as Election Day he didn’t believe he would win the presidency. He thought that as of November 9, 2016—the day after Election Day—he’d return to being a nonpolitician private citizen free to do big international business deals without hindrance. According to Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, a week before the election Trump told the former head of the Fox News Channel Roger Ailes that “losing [the election] . . . isn’t losing. We’ve totally won.” Wolff wrote that Trump appeared to his aides to be “horrified” when things started breaking his way on election night, almost certainly thinking that his grand plans for a Trump Tower Moscow would have to be put on hold. Former congressman, current MSNBC host, and longtime Trump friend—now Trump enemy—Joe Scarborough said in August 2017, after having been in contact with Trump for much of the 2016 campaign, “Donald Trump never thought he was going to win the presidency. This was all a money-making scam. . . . [He was going to] take the money and run. ‘Let me use the position I’m in right now and try to get that tower in Moscow.’ ”

When Trump won on November 8, 2016, in addition to publicly expressing his surprise, he for weeks resisted any attempt to shut down his business dealings at home or abroad. To this day, he has not divested himself of his business interests, almost certainly aware that the commitments he made to Agalarov prior to the election can be restarted more readily if he takes no appreciable steps to distance himself from the business entity—the Trump Organization—that made those commitments.