Trump lied about having business dealings in Russia during campaign

[HomerJS]

Trump told reporters Thursday that Cohen’s statements were lies in order to get a shorter sentence and also were essentially old news, telling reporters, “he’s lying about a project that everybody knew about

Wait, everybody knew about? During the campaign he said...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics...moscow-deal-denials-business-with-russia.html

 

[nakedfrog]

Well, I never!

Sorry, got that backwards. Well, I always!

 

[Thebobo]

So now he is saying, what I can't work in russia>?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Look at the second 1997 incident

Hahahaha!!!!!

https://medium.com/@abbievansickle/timeline-of-trumps-relationship-to-russia-5e78c7e7f480

 

[woolfe9998]

Uh, yeah. It's news what Cohen just admitted to, but it's not news that Trump lied about his financial dealings with Russia. The book Proof of Collusion which I just finished is almost half about that alone. At the end of one chapter where the author lays out all these various business dealings, including not one, but two, separate deals to build large hotels in different places in Moscow, one with an already signed letter of intent, he closes the chapter by quoting Trump tweeting:

"I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NE DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!"

Guys, I'm starting to think our President just might not be an entirely truthful person.

 

[F-5]

To me it isn’t news anymore when Trump lies because that’s all he does. He’s a pathological liar who is incorrigible and is headed down a road he never dreamed he’d be on. I really hope he leaves the WH in cuffs with his head hanging low like the low life he is.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Funny thing is which we all predicted, all Trump had to do was be honest about this garbage. While he was campaigning just say “I run a big business, I do business all over the World provided it makes sense. I evaluate deals anywhere in the World”
I’ll show you my tax returns, then actually show the tax returns.
I’ll put my money in a blind trust, then actually put his money in a real blind trust, admittedly this would be tough for a property owner but he could have leased them off to another business. I wouldn’t have a big problem with him keeping Mar-a-largo.

 

[VRAMdemon]

Trump's business dealings are the basis for kompromat. The minute Trump lied to the American people saying that he had no dealings with Russia during the campaign, the Russians had him. They knew he was lying. That subjects Trump, and any of his family members who were also aware, to blackmail. That's how kompromat works.

The big picture here is that Trump abandoned his oath to protect the American people in favor of furthering his own personal financial interests, and put himself in a position to be blackmailed by Russia in the process. Especially now that it's been reported that Trump promised a 50 million penthouse to Putin in exchange for being allowed to build Trump Tower in Moscow.

 

[kitkat22]

Funny thing is which we all predicted, all Trump had to do was be honest about all this garbage. While he was campaigning just say “I run a big business, I do business all over the World provided it makes sense, I evaluate deals all anywhere in the World”
I’ll show you my tax returns, then actually show the tax returns.
I’ll put my money in a blind trust, then actually put his money in a real blind trust, admittedly this would be tough for a property owner but he could have leased them off to another business. I wouldn’t have a big problem with him keeping Mar-a-largo.

Wait, wait, wait - you are stating something that is actually reasonable! The problem with being honest in Trumps situation is it reveals a lot of history. He does not want his history revealed and unfortunately/fortunately his history is coming to light and it ain't pretty.

As many others have said, if he has nothing to hide why is he fighting tooth and nail against it? Also, if he has nothing to hide, why then did he surround himself with the "best?"

 

[F-5]

Exactly. When a person tells the truth it’s easy to recall what was previously stated. However, when continually lying it’s a constant battle to try and remember what was previously stated as the *truth*. It is so blatantly obvious the Republicans across the country elected a reality TV star whose favorite saying was “you’re fired”. He doesn’t have the intellect to be POTUS period. Anyone who repeatedly Tweets information that matches the maturity level of a 13 year old has serious issues and if they don’t care how they’re being perceived that’s even worse.

As a country we have to be very careful who we elect in 2020. This shit isn’t funny anymore....

 

[cytg111]

How did we know that? If a perpetual liar makes a statement then the opposite must be true.

 

[cytg111]

I think this one should give everyone goose bumps ..

https://shareblue.com/trump-threatens-national-security-to-protect-himself/

There is *nothing* he wont do ... shudder, thinking about that nuke button... It would actually make sense for him to drop on Russia wouldnt it? At some point?

 

[Indus]

No more than.. He

 

[trenchfoot]

Trump is going down, the sooner the better and when he does, I hope he takes as many rotten to the core associates with him.

My only fat chance wish is that somehow Pence, McConnell and Ryan goes down with him for being grossly negligent from not holding Trump in check and from being complicit toward shielding Trump from the restraints that the Rule of Law would have placed on him.

 

[zzyzxroad]

In his defense I believe he thinks Putin is the leader of a country called Russir.

 

[Jhhnn]

Well, if he wasn't lying under oath it's not illegal. It doesn't count. MAGA! Wall! Swamp! Hillary! Trade War! Witch hunt!

 

[Phokus]

"What's better than crime? MORE CRIME!" - Donald Trump

 

[fskimospy]

Wait, wait, wait - you are stating something that is actually reasonable! The problem with being honest in Trumps situation is it reveals a lot of history. He does not want his history revealed and unfortunately/fortunately his history is coming to light and it ain't pretty.

As many others have said, if he has nothing to hide why is he fighting tooth and nail against it? Also, if he has nothing to hide, why then did he surround himself with the "best?"

I think the reason is obvious to most objective people. He’s hiding and lying because he’s guilty.

 

[HomerJS]

Anyone remember the reports issued by the House Intelligence committee. One report by Republicans and one by Democrats? The testimony of Michael Cohen was not submitted to Mueller. Dems wanted him to get it but it was blocked by Devin Nunes. Republicans wrote their report based on the lies by Cohen.

Now Dems have an email to Cohen from Dimitry Pescov promising funding for Trump Moscow funded by VTB. The same VTB that was under sanction and Americans were not allowed to do business with them. The promise that VTB would fund the project came from the Kremlin.

 

[DrDoug]

Uh, yeah. It's news what Cohen just admitted to, but it's not news that Trump lied about his financial dealings with Russia. The book Proof of Collusion which I just finished is almost half about that alone. At the end of one chapter where the author lays out all these various business dealings, including not one, but two, separate deals to build large hotels in different places in Moscow, one with an already signed letter of intent, he closes the chapter by quoting Trump tweeting:

"I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NE DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!"

Guys, I'm starting to think our President just might not be an entirely truthful person.

Hair Furor is sounding like a modern day M.Sgt. Schultz from Hogan's Heroes. Since Rump says that this is old news then maybe he can point to where we were told about the $50M penthouse suite that he was going to gift to his BFF, Pootie, for letting him build in Russia. Or where we were told that he was negotiating with the Kremlin over the deal? Motormouth Mikey put some big hurt on Tangerine Torquemada today. This, after he had learned that Mueller knew all along about Fat Paulie singing investigation questions to his former employer and his attorneys in the White House, is gonna leave a mark. There's no such thing as a perjury trap if you don't perjure yourself by walking into one. What a lot of people are unaware of is that a prosecutor is going to to focus on asking questions that they already have the answer to. That's how they find out if there is something to prosecute. Mueller isn't on a fishing expedition, he's only asking questions that he has already discovered the answers to and then comparing the results.

If people lie to him then it's on them for not understanding how this works when he comes back at them.

 

[Homerboy]

I thought this was a really good recap of the events

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/c...ve_vladimir/ear0hzf?utm_source=reddit-android

 

[Jaskalas]

Uh, yeah. It's news what Cohen just admitted to, but it's not news that Trump lied about his financial dealings with Russia. The book Proof of Collusion which I just finished is almost half about that alone. At the end of one chapter where the author lays out all these various business dealings, including not one, but two, separate deals to build large hotels in different places in Moscow, one with an already signed letter of intent, he closes the chapter by quoting Trump tweeting:

"I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NE DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!"

Guys, I'm starting to think our President just might not be an entirely truthful person.

I suppose being a liar, in general, is not a crime and/or impeachable offense.

But the President clearly has conflicts of interest / corruption involving Russia. And his lies are on that subject. Republicans should be hounded on their failure to impeach him for that.

 

[HomerJS]

Also Felix Sater was going to offer Putin a $50 million Penthouse in Trump Moscow. Bribe much??

 

[trenchfoot]

I think the reason is obvious to most objective people. He’s hiding and lying because he’s guilty.

From the day he refused to release his tax filings to the days he continuously filled his cabinet positions with corporate types that swore an oath to forward the principles of trickle down tricky economics and on through those times he mysteriously favored Putin over our own allies, Trump has been lying, ducking and dodging the truth, always fighting the facts of his skullduggery that he jealously guarded with fiction and outlandish fallacies.

Throughout all of his fakery, his base has been foolishly, nay, arrogantly and stupidly supporting this guy.

There will be volumes of studies of how the GOP and Trump had created this impenetrable aura around their constituency such that they would so blindly support Trump and party despite the very blatant signs of Trump's dishonesty and his attempts at deceiving anyone he could to satisfy his personal desires.

 

[chemwiz]

Trump is incapable of telling the truth.
https://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/statements/byruling/false/