February 2, 2019
THE TIGHTENING NOOSE:
The President Said No Site Was Picked For Trump Moscow -- But Documents Show His Fixers Were Scoping A Prime Location (Emma Loop, 2/01/19, BuzzFeed News)
President Donald Trump said Thursday that his company had not selected a location to build a Trump Tower Moscow during the 2016 presidential election."That deal was not important. It was essentially a letter of intent or an option. I'm not even sure that they had a site," Trump told the New York Times in a wide-ranging interview, excerpts of which the paper published online."I don't think they had a location," he said later in the interview. "I'm not even sure if they had a location."In fact, hundreds of pages of business documents, emails, text messages, and architectural plans obtained by BuzzFeed News show that the Trump Organization was scoping at least one prime location for the luxury glass skyscraper. The signed letter of intent includes a proposal to build the tower in Moscow City, a former industrial complex near the edge of the Moscow River that has since been converted into an ambitious commercial district clustered with several of the tallest skyscrapers in Europe.
Posted by Orrin Judd at February 2, 2019 9:19 AM