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^^ In the report they did reveal that there was a RU business man who wrote Cohen about tapes [context below]... he then told Mueller that he discovered the tapes were fake, but never told Trumpland - so to offer a different scenario that fits the information we do know: what if the Russians wanted Trump to believe there were tapes?
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According to a footnote in the special counsel's report, which was released Thursday, Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal lawyer, received a text from Russian businessman Giorgi Rtskhiladze in October 2016 that said: "Stopped flow of tapes from Russia but not sure if there's anything else. Just so you know..."Rtskhiladze told Mueller that "tapes" referred to "compromising tapes of Trump rumored to be held by persons associated with the Russian real estate conglomerate Crocus Group," which had helped host the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant, according to the report (the pageant was owned by Trump for years). Cohen told the special counsel that he spoke to Trump about the issue after receiving Rtskhiladze's text.
Rtskhiladze also told prosecutors that he was told the tapes were fake, but that he didn't convey that to Cohen.