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This article from about a week ago, overlooked at the time because of the Charlottesville incident, contains some pretty explosive allegations. Should be taken with a grain of salt of course but nothing would surprise me anymore TBH.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017…
Trump's most recent partner in "selling a lot of condos" was a man called Felix Sater. Sater was once jailed for stabbing a man in the face with the broken stem of a martini glass. He was convicted of massive stock fraud -- a partnership between the Russian and Italian American mafias -- but stayed out of jail by becoming an FBI informant.
For several weeks there have been rumors that Sater is ready to rat again, agreeing to help Mueller.
"He has told family and friends he knows he and POTUS are going to prison," someone talking to Mueller’s investigators informed me.
Sater hinted in an interview earlier this month that he may be cooperating with both Mueller’s investigation and congressional probes of Trump.
"In about the next 30 to 35 days, I will be the most colourful character you have ever talked about," Sater told New York Magazine. "Unfortunately, I can’t talk about it now, before it happens. And believe me, it ain’t anything as small as whether or not they’re gonna call me to the Senate committee."
Sater and Manafort together would pose a deadly threat to Trump's presidency if they testify that Russian money in his businesses led to information being exchanged with Russian intelligence. This is exactly the relationship -- an "exchange running between them for at least eight years" -- that the former MI6 officer Christopher Steele described in his "dossier". At a news conference last week at his New Jersey golf club, the President bizarrely asserted that the Steele dossier had been paid for by Russia in order to damage him.
This is the latest twist in Trump's response to the dossier, which began with flat denials in January that he had been filmed by Russian intelligence with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room.
That remains unproven. Nevertheless, Steele is not the only source. I heard of Russian kompromat -- compromising material -- on Trump from two sources months before the Steele dossier came to light. That might be evidence for Trump's statements that Russian intelligence, as well as the US agencies, are out to get him. There are, though, reports of witnesses in the hotel who corroborate Steele's reporting.
These include an American who's said to have seen a row with hotel security over whether the (alleged) hookers would be allowed up to Trump's suite. The dossier's account of hookers in a Moscow hotel room was the subject of gossip among a select group of journalists, politicians and intelligence people for months before it was published. Now, claims are circulating of more tapes showing even more extreme behavior. Expect these allegations to emerge in due course.
- The story is behind a paywall but you can read it here: https://www.pressrea…yuekit