Friday 26th of April 2024

there is fake news and there is "stupid news"...

"email"

There is fake news and strange stuff that actually means nothing... If this email is legit, then the business people, especially Felix Sater, who seem to make deals like Tom and Jerry, write like Donald Duck and speak like Sylvester the cat, are idiots. They are also like Scrooge married to the witch in Snow White, and Mr Magoo allied with Al Capone and our treasurer Scomo who said something about the ASIS investigation into the CBA that made as much sense as Popeye with a mouth full of spinash. It did pop my eyes. 

First, "we can engineer it" is funny, really funny. The entire USA (or 99.9 % of it to speak like an advert for an anti-cockroach spray or an hygienic kitchen bench towel) is anti Russia. Trump was claiming at all and sundry who came to his rallies during his campaign to become president, that he was going to be friend with Russia. Is this really "engineering it"? Isn't this the sign of a mad man in search of a hiding for nothing?

 

From the NYT:

 

WASHINGTON — A business associate of President Trump promised in 2015 to engineer a real estate deal with the aid of the president of Russia,Vladimir V. Putin, that he said would help Mr. Trump win the presidency.

The business associate, Felix Sater, wrote a series of emails to Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, in which he boasted about his ties to Mr. Putin and predicted that building a Trump Tower in Moscow would be a political boon to Mr. Trump’s candidacy.

“Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it,” Mr. Sater wrote in an email. “I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.”

read more:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/politics/trump-tower-putin-felix-sater.html

Even if this really-stupid email is true, this by no way consist a "truth" that Putin interfered with the US Presidential elections... He did not. He did not have to.  He had to let Donald be Donald. A hoot.

 

a brief tour of Red Square...

Mr. Sater presented himself as so influential in Russia that he helped arrange a 2006 trip that Mr. Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, took to Moscow. “I arranged for Ivanka to sit in Putins private chair at his desk and office in the Kremlin,” he said.

Ms. Trump said she had no involvement in the discussions about the Moscow deal. In a statement, she said she that during the 2006 trip, she took “a brief tour of Red Square and the Kremlin but I have never met President Vladimir Putin.” She did not say whether she sat in his chair.

The Times reported earlier this year on the plan for a Trump Tower in Moscow, which never materialized. On Sunday, The Washington Postreported the existence of the correspondence between Mr. Sater and Mr. Cohen but not its content.

read more:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/politics/trump-tower-putin-felix-sater.html