>>>....In his letter to the House Intelligence Committee, Cohen repeatedly denied that he was involved in covering up Trump's alleged ties to Russia, as the Steele dossier claims. ....
>>>...However, Sater and Cohen exchanged a series of emails in November 2015 in which they geared up to celebrate the Moscow deal, as well as Trump's election victory, which would come a year later. In the emails, which were obtained by The New York Times on Monday, Sater bragged about his relationship with Putin and told Cohen that he would "get all of Putins team to buy in" on the Trump Tower Moscow deal.
>>>"Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it," Sater wrote, according to The Times. "I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected."
>>>....In his letter to the House Intelligence Committee, Cohen repeatedly denied that he was involved in covering up Trump's alleged ties to Russia, as the Steele dossier claims. ....
>>>Thus - Choen is a liar and obviously this parts of the dossier are true.
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>First, lets not forget that just hours ago you didn't know that Cohen was even the dossier, so you needn't now act expert and come up with fresh rationalizations relying on something you didn't even know when you called him a liar.
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>Second, the paraphrases get you in trouble. Far better to use actual terms and what was actually said rather than approximations skewed towards something unsubstantiated you want to call true.
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>Because of course Trump is *allowed* to have ties to Russia. He ran beauty pageants, he did (or attempted) real estate deals and did all sorts of things to be expected of his previous career.
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>He's even allowed to have pee pee sessions with Russian prostitutes. Even to "collude" with Russians. It's not a crime, and Cohen didn't need to deny covering it up, since that's not a crime either.
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>Third, how is Cohen responsible for something a real estate dealer emails to him trying to bring a Trump Tower to fruition? Bragging (sic) by somebody called Sater isn't a slam dunk proof that Cohen helped cover up conspiracy or an illegal contribution from Russians as you seem to infer.
>If that sort of logic were true, somebody could email you something scurrilous and then have you arrested as the responsible party.

So are you under the impression that Trump has no ties to Russia and has never lied about it? There are several current examples of him violating the Emoluments Clause aren't there?