Giuliani: Discussions on Trump Tower in Moscow were 'active' throughout 2016 election
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Source: CNBC
President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow remained an "active proposal" as late as November of 2016, leaving open the possibility that Trump's orbit continued to pursue the business deal up until the presidential election, months later than previously known.
Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," Giuliani said the president has told him he can "remember having conversations" with his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, about the project well into 2016. Cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the timeline of his involvement in that proposal, admitting that he worked on it through June of 2016 after initially saying it ended at the beginning of that year.
"It's our understanding that they went on throughout 2016," Giuliani said of the discussions, adding that there "weren't a lot of them, but there were conversations. Can't be sure of the exact date," Giuliani said, referring to written questions Trump and his lawyers have answered from special counsel Robert Mueller's office.
"Probably could be up to as far as October, November. Our answers cover until the election. So anytime during that period they could've talked about it. But the president's recollection of it is that the thing had petered out quite a bit."
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/20/giuliani-talks-on-trump-tower-in-moscow-active-during-2016-election-.html
He says that Cohen would know more because he was the one negotiating -- that it was his "sole mission."
Also, this is different from the Buzzfeed report that said discussions went on through June. Maybe this is something that wasn't "accurate."
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