Just when you think a day will go by without some insane new revelation in the Trump-Russia story the universe spits in your borscht and says “nyet.”
Thanks to Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen turning on his master and making a deal with the FBI this week we now know that Trump was in contact with Russia about possibly building a Trump Tower in Moscow longer than was previously known during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The latest twist in the tale is the news that the proposed project may have included a penthouse suite for Vladimir Putin himself worth some 50 million dollars.
Trump once cashed a .13 cent check sent to him as a joke by the wags at Spy Magazine.
Anyone think he didn’t know about a $50 million penthouse for Putin?
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) November 30, 2018
Potential Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violation, including by Trump if he knew about it. https://t.co/leOa8CxiAw
— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) November 29, 2018
Let he among us who has not bribed a despot whose intelligence service will help you steal a US presidential campaign with a $50 million dollar penthouse cast the first stone. https://t.co/0XO3ylJp0S
— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) November 29, 2018
According to CNN the Trump camp considered offering Putin the penthouse suite in their proposed hotel as a “marketing ploy” to attract other buyers. It’s worth noting that Trump is on record saying “I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA!”
Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA – NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017
Likely due to Cohen’s most recent flip Trump has been freaking out on Twitter even more than usual while at the G-20 summit in Argentina and tweeted the following admission, saying that he had “lightly” considered building in Russia while also calling his business dealings “very legal & very cool” which is just…funny as hell actually.
Oh, I get it! I am a very good developer, happily living my life, when I see our Country going in the wrong direction (to put it mildly). Against all odds, I decide to run for President & continue to run my business-very legal & very cool, talked about it on the campaign trail…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 30, 2018
….Lightly looked at doing a building somewhere in Russia. Put up zero money, zero guarantees and didn’t do the project. Witch Hunt!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 30, 2018
In the criminal justice system, the president is protected by two separate but equally important groups: The Russians, who help him do crimes crime, and the white supremacists, who support his agenda. These are their stories.
Law & Order: Very Legal & Very Cool *dun dun*
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) November 30, 2018
Oh! Hahaha! Come in, I didn’t see you there. Everything we are doing here is very legal, very cool, man, nothing is fucked here. Namaste. https://t.co/gGJBeeZTdp
— statehood 4 afghanistan (@Mobute) November 30, 2018
*billy madison talking to the imaginary penguin voice*: https://t.co/knh7TwboiJ
— ceeks (@70Ceeks) November 30, 2018
This is like a speech by the villain in a kids’ movie that ends “…and then a GOLDEN RETRIEVER runs against me??” https://t.co/VscHD2rqJq
— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) November 30, 2018
“it’s very legal and very cool” is what I say to my kids when they catch me smoking weed
— Rob Rousseau (@robrousseau) November 30, 2018
very legal and very cool pic.twitter.com/FgLn6yZMHz
— The Christmas Stus (@RandBallsStu) November 30, 2018
very legal & very cool pic.twitter.com/MjzR70aSOe
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) November 30, 2018
You know who else was very legal and very cool?
*turns cap backwards, sits facing backwards in chair*
Jesus Christ
— Juggalocialism (@UweBollocks) November 30, 2018
Ok this one is gold:
“In extreme wealth born and raised,
In my dad’s shadow where I spent most of my days,
Chillin’ out, maxin’, very legal and very cool,
Buildin’ condos for fascists outside of the school”— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) November 30, 2018
Sounds almost like some light treason.
h/t BuzzFeed News
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