Felix Sater, is said to have told friends that he and POTUS are going to prison

[kpete]

Forget Charlottesville – Russia is still the true Trump scandal
Why has a friendly tabloid exposed a sex scandal in the President’s ranks?

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A vague outline of the truth is starting to emerge from the fog. It is that the Russians made continual attempts to get close to Trump and his associates, part of what the US intelligence agencies all agree was a Kremlin plot to subvert the election. Trump’s supporters believe that any such approaches never went anywhere (as Jr says happened with his meeting) or that the tough New York property developer from The Apprentice was playing the Russians without being played himself. Trump’s enemies, believing him to be a man with no moral compass, imagine he was only too eager to take whatever was being offered: information; weird sex in a Moscow hotel room; money, lots of it, for his businesses.

This is why it is so important that the FBI investigation, led by a special counsel, Robert Mueller, now appears to be reaching back into Trump’s business past. Mueller’s team of prosecutors includes a number of experts in money-laundering and New York real estate. The US media is speculating that he is trying to build an old-fashioned wire fraud, tax evasion and racketeering case against Trump. This is a neuralgic issue for the President. In a New York Times interview he agreed that any investigation of his finances was a ‘red line’ Mueller should not cross. ‘I would say yeah. I would say yes. By the way, I would say, I don’t — I don’t — I mean, it’s possible there’s a condo or something, so, you know, I sell a lot of condo units, and somebody from Russia buys a condo, who knows?’ Trump’s most recent partner in ‘selling a lot of condos’ was a man called Felix Sater. Sater was once jailed for stabbing a man in the face with the broken stem of a martini glass. He was convicted of a massive stock fraud — a partnership between the Russian and Italian-American mafias — but stayed out of jail by becoming an FBI informant.

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. Sater himself added fuel to this fire when he told New York magazine last week: ‘In about the next 30 to 35 days, I will be the most colourful character you have ever talked about. Unfortunately, I can’t talk about it now, before it happens. And believe me, it ain’t anything as small as whether or not they’re gonna call me to the Senate committee.’

Sater and Manafort together would pose a deadly threat to Trump’s presidency if they testify that Russian money in his businesses led to information being exchanged with Russian intelligence. This is exactly the relationship — an ‘exchange running between them for at least eight years’ — that the former MI6 officer Christopher Steele described in his ‘dossier’. At a news conference this week at his New Jersey golf club, the President bizarrely asserted that the Steele dossier had been paid for by Russia in order to damage him. This is the latest twist in Trump’s response to the dossier, which began with flat denials in January that he had been filmed by Russian intelligence with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room.



the rest:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/08/forget-charlottesville-russia-is-still-the-true-trump-scandal/

[Squinch]

1. I am excited to see that timeline of "30 to 35 days." Praying this is true.

[FM123]

2. On days when watching Trumpy's chaos on the news is especially disheartening,

I remind myself that every day Mr. Mueller and his team go to work. Quietly and seriously they are working behind the scenes to bring this clown show to its proper end. This thought alone gives me hope.

[Mrs. Overall]

3. oh please, oh please, oh please be true

[bitterross]

4. Is the Spectator a reliable source or a British rag?

I want the story to be true and accurate but I want a lot of things.

Is this a good source? The writing style leads me to believe this is a sensationalist rag.

[dalton99a]

5. Its sister publications are The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph

[bloom]

6. Trump's pro-Nazi rhetoric will make it easier to impeach him.

As he becomes more deplorable to more people - it will be easier to convict him.

That's how it works.

The Russian stuff may be too complicated or distant for some people. Being pro-Nazi is right here / right now - in your face deplorable.

[Gothmog]

7. Slater is dirty as heck

[KewlKat]

8. thanks for the post

[Julian Englis]

9. K &. R