President Trump’s company sought to build a luxury hotel and condominium project in Moscow at the start of the U.S. presidential race and requested help from an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump’s personal attorney said Monday. Cohen abandoned the Moscow project in January 2016 after deciding it was “not feasible,” he said in the two-page statement to the House Intelligence Committee. “The Trump Tower Moscow proposal was not related in any way to Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign,” Cohen said. Sater urged Cohen to have Trump come to Moscow to “push forward” the project, but Cohen said he declined the overtures. CAPTION President Donald Trump says the groups protesting against white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, were "also very violent."

Source: Los Angeles Times August 29, 2017 00:39 UTC