TPM "Heres What Cohen Was Doing For Trump Campaign While Working On Russia Deal"
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/michael-cohen-negotiated-moscow-deal-while-acting-as-trump-surrogateBy ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published AUGUST 29, 2017 5:39 PM
As Donald Trump was surging to the top of the Republican presidential primary field on a wave of insults and bombastic statements in fall 2015, his longtime personal attorney and friend, Michael Cohen, was giving frequent on-camera and print interviews boosting his boss’ candidacy.
During that same period, as we learned from documents turned over to congressional investigators this week, Cohen was serving as the “lead negotiator” on efforts to construct a Trump-branded tower in Moscow.
Cohen and the Trump campaign have insisted he never had a formal role with it. Yet in the months that he was working the Moscow deal for the Trump Organization, he was also giving regular interviews to the press on the campaign issues of the day, firing off campaign-related tweets, giving comment on Trump’s behalf, and organizing events with and outreach to constituent groups.
A review of Cohen’s interviews and tweets between October 2015, when Trump signed a letter of intent to build in Moscow with a firm tied to banks under U.S. sanctions, and January 2016, when the prospective deal was abandoned, makes it clear that Cohen was advancing Trump’s business interests in Russia at the same time he was selling his boss to voters in the U.S.
lots more to read - snip - check the link above. Worthwhile to read it all
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Now, Trump wouldn't lie would he? 
BTW A tomato on my not again list, German Johnson.
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Trump Associate Boasted That Moscow Deal Will Get Donald Elected
Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON — A business associate of President Trump promised in 2015 to engineer a real estate deal with the aid of the president of Russia, Vladimir V. Putin, that he said would help Mr. Trump win the presidency.
The business associate, Felix Sater, wrote a series of emails to Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, in which he boasted about his ties to Mr. Putin and predicted that building a Trump Tower in Moscow would be a political boon to Mr. Trump’s candidacy.
“Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it,” Mr. Sater wrote in an email. “I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.”
The emails show that, from the earliest months of Mr. Trump’s campaign, his associates viewed close ties with Moscow as a political advantage. Those ties are now under investigation by the Justice Department and multiple congressional committees.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/politics/trump-tower-putin-felix-sater.html?referer=&_r=0
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It was a coup and we had treason
immensely popular in North Carolina (it is a local heirloom) - but one of my least favorite tomatoes to eat - and gets easily diseased.
Doesn't even make my top 1000 list!
Dester...now there's a great tasting large pink tomato! And Stump of the World. And Polish...and and and...
