All because of a Tower?

The most pressing question regarding Donald Trumps serviler attitude to Vladimir Putin is simple enough: What brings the US President to make Putin the yard, the Nato badly to talk and to trust the denial of the Kremlin with regard to alleged Russian interference in the US elections of 2016, more than the assessment of the American intelligence services?

Perhaps the answer is hidden behind a construction project: The Trump Tower in Moscow, one of the Donald Trump and his family for years, dreaming. 100 floors of the skyscraper, including a Wellness center that would bear the name of Ivanka Trumps. Donald Trump hoped to at least $ 300 million Profit from the project, the realization of which, however, from the blessing as the help of the Kremlin.

Before the construction and its financing by Russian banks, had to be repealed in 2014, the Obama administration imposed sanctions against Russia, Russian banks and Russian oligarchs – and, evidence suggests, is perhaps the core of Donald trump's the Russian Problem. The realization of a Trump Towers in Moscow in return for a lifting of the sanctions would have been politically unacceptable and had to be veiled.

"There was a good Chance I would have lost the election, and then back to the business of life would be gone – and why should I lose so many opportunities?"Donald Trump

hardly, it would have been trump's presidential candidacy a boost, if the American Public would have to learn to put that behind close to the Republican presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, the desire for a Mega-Deal with the Kremlin. "There was a good Chance I would have lost the election, and then back to the business of life would be gone – and why should I lose so many opportunities?", the President defended in November 2018, to be a Russian construction project.

However, nothing is wrong, but why lie to Trump and his staff repeatedly on the Moscow project? So trump's Ex-lawyer Michael Cohen, who had lied to the intelligence committees in Congress in a letter in August 2017, was in charge: The discussions with Moscow had been set in January 2016, shortly before the start of the Republican primaries, even the Russian Official had not responded to its requests, as far as he could remember.

Cohen was convicted of tax evasion and false statements before the Congress to three years in prison. Photo: Keystone

Both of these were lies, what Cohen in November of 2018 admitted: Putin's spokesman Dmitri Peskov had responded very well to his requests, and the efforts to build a Trump tower in Moscow only in June 2016, i.e., during the US election campaign.

Giuliani: negotiations took longer

Now reported on Sunday, Donald trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani, to word and moved to the end of the discussions between the Team of Trump and Moscow. The President told him that the negotiations had taken "from the day I declared my candidacy, up to the day I won the election", that is, from June 2015 to November 2016.

Perhaps the discussions on a Trump Tower in Moscow ran even after Trumps electoral victory: His son Jared Kushner-in-law contacted then secretly Sergey Kisljak, the Russian Ambassador in Washington. All of the negotiations with Moscow and wanted to Kushner, with the help of Russian communication channels, which triggered speculation that Kushner didn't want to hide the conversations in front of the counterintelligence division of the FBI.

Also Trumps the designated security consultant Michael Flynn discussed with Kisljak in December 2016 about the lifting of sanctions. Later, Flynn's log about why he was in February 2017 dismissed.

but What Trump hoped to return for a lifting of sanctions? Already in 2007, the future President had declared that Russia was "one of the hottest investment places in the world, we'll be in Moscow". In 2013, played a Trump on a visit to the Russian capital on the occasion of the Miss universe contest, yet always with the thought, and thanked Agas Agalarow, a Putin close to the Tycoon, for the help: Agalarow have "great work done, next to the Trump Tower in Moscow". (Editorial Tamedia)

Created: 21.01.2019, 21:53 PM