Fat hurts wrote:
ya..... wrote:
Google search -> Any Time -> 05/01/2016 - 07/01/2016 "Trump" "moscow" "tower".
What you'll see are stories that there were (fruitless) talks of building a tower in Moscow. This isn't news. The only news is that Cohen, for the really dumb reason of "staying in line with the presidents messaging" lied and said Trump didn't know that there was speculation of building a tower in Moscow.
When the news of Cohen admitting he lied surfaced, all the pro-collusion people started saying "they've got Donny now! I bet he submitted to Mueller that he had no knowledge of a plan to build a tower in Moscow! Purjury!"
Well, sorry folks, turns out that before this news ever broke, Trump had already told Mueller "Yeah of course I knew about that!"
So what this boils down to is, Cohen lied, Trump told the truth, and Cohen will get prosecuted for lying about something that doesn't even matter. This doesn't implicate Trump in any way.
First off, Tiny did lie publicly. He repeatedly told the American people that he had nothing to do with Russia. Those who trusted that Tiny had put all Russia deals behind him before the Iowa caucus were duped and voted for him thinking that he wasn't being influenced by the Kremlin. Tiny clearly was being influenced by Putin and likely still is.
Secondly, you don't know if Tiny lied to Mueller. Remember that he submitted a sworn affidavit to the special council which dealt with questions of Russian collusion. If Tiny's sworn affidavit proclaimed that the Trump tower deal was dead in January of 2016 then Tiny has committed perjury.
Who is "Tiny"?