CNN’s Chris Cuomo Displays Copy of Moscow Tower Letter of Intent with Trump Signature
CNN host Chris Cuomo presented a special prop during one of his signature Donald Trump fact checking segments tonight, showing viewers a letter of intent dedicated to a Trump Tower Moscow development with the president’s signature on it, despite his denials of such a project.
“Tonights, the facts fly in the face of the story, or at least the story the president would have you believe,” Cuomo began. “This is the letter of intent for the proposed Trump Tower Moscow, all right. It is signed by Donald J. Trump. How do I know? Well because we have been told it was by his lawyer and it is, and I’ll show it to you.”
He then took viewers on a “walk down memory lane,” reminding them of the numerous times Trump said he had “nothing to do” with Russia and Vladimir Putin when questioned about his ties to the country.
“For a deal that didn’t mean anything, it’s a lot of pages, man, with a lot of detail about what they wanted, and how they wanted it and how he’d be paid, and there’s his signature,” Cuomo observed, before noting the time Trump changed his story and denied personally signing it, instead pinning the signature on ex-personal lawyer Michael Cohen.
The host concluded by calling the president’s lies “a PR campaign” designed to fool Americans:
“Here’s the letter. Cohen didn’t sign it, the president did. Then this weekend the president’s esteemed lawyer said, quote, ‘It was a real estate project. There was a letter of intent to go forward, but no one signed it.’ Why are they doing this? This is Donald Trump’s signature. It’s here. We know this. Now, here’s what itself going on, this doesn’t matter legally. That’s the point. They’re not preparing for trial. Don’t examine it that way. They’re preparing for a PR campaign to convince you of what they want you to believe. Our job is to help you keep the facts front and center and we’ll do that.”
The 17 page letter, which has been public knowledge for months, touted Trump’s potential real estate projects — including a hotel, condos, and a spa named after his daughter Ivanka Trump — in Russia and was signed by the president in October, 2015.
Watch above, via CNN.
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