Donald Trump during a 2005 visit to Colorado to speak at a business convention. The negotiations for the Moscow project ended before Trump’s business ties to Russia had become a major issue in the campaign. Cohen acted as a lead negotiator for the Trump Organization. In 2005, the Trump Organization gave his development company, the Bayrock Group, an exclusive one-year deal to attempt to build a Moscow Trump Tower. In the same testimony, Sater described traveling with Trump’s children, including joining Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. on a trip to Moscow at their father’s request.

Source: Washington Post August 28, 2017 00:51 UTC