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When you click through that “which was ultimately scrapped” link, it takes you to this September 2017 story about how the Moscow deal was scrapped. The story says the letter of intent was signed in October 2015 (four months into his presidential campaign, by the freaking way).
Then, out of the blue, there is this unsourced paragraph, which provides the only evidence that the deal was “scrapped.”
“Cohen pulled out of the arrangement three months later [January 2016] as the project failed to get off the ground.” Unsourced. Stated as fact. And 100% false. Cohen admitted talks went on at least 6 months longer. Giuliani implied they went on until *at least* Election Day.Yet the assertion that the Trump Tower Moscow deal was “scrapped” continues to make it into stories to this very day. There is no evidence — beyond blind attestations, presumably from very interested parties — that the deal ever stopped. There’s certainly no PROOF it stopped.Whether the Trump Tower Moscow deal was ever “scrapped” is a major point of dispute in this scandal. A 14-month-old report that has since been overtaken by facts cannot be the primary source for such a vital assertion. Maybe the deal was scrapped. Maybe not. We don’t know!rumpWorld sources have been lying to reporters from the start. We all have to re-examine what we thought were settled facts. The original CNN story said the Moscow deal was scrapped by January 2016. That’s false. We gotta go back to square one & look at everything again.
I'm guessing Mr. Mueller knows.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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