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A timeline of Trump associates' Russia-related emails reveal consistent efforts by Russia to infiltr
Source: Business Insider
A timeline of Trump associates' Russia-related emails reveal consistent efforts by Russia to infiltrate the campaign
Natasha Bertrand
5h
Emails sent by members of President Donald Trump's inner circle during the election, which are now being examined by intelligence committees in Congress, reveal a consistent effort by Russia to infiltrate and secure leverage over the Trump campaign.
On Sunday, The Washington Post reported that the Russian-born businessman Felix Sater, a real-estate adviser who began bringing Russian investors to Trump Tower in the early 2000s, wrote emails to Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen in November 2015 asking to move forward with plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
The emails themselves were then obtained by The New York Times, which published them on Monday afternoon.
"I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected," Sater wrote to Cohen in an email on November 3, 2015. "I know how to play it and we will get this done. 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."
It is not clear whether Cohen replied to Sater, if at all. But he wrote directly to the Kremlin two months later.
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Natasha Bertrand
5h
Emails sent by members of President Donald Trump's inner circle during the election, which are now being examined by intelligence committees in Congress, reveal a consistent effort by Russia to infiltrate and secure leverage over the Trump campaign.
On Sunday, The Washington Post reported that the Russian-born businessman Felix Sater, a real-estate adviser who began bringing Russian investors to Trump Tower in the early 2000s, wrote emails to Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen in November 2015 asking to move forward with plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
The emails themselves were then obtained by The New York Times, which published them on Monday afternoon.
"I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected," Sater wrote to Cohen in an email on November 3, 2015. "I know how to play it and we will get this done. 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."
It is not clear whether Cohen replied to Sater, if at all. But he wrote directly to the Kremlin two months later.
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Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-russia-emails-timeline-2017-8
