Has a commercial real estate expert ever evaluated the Letter of Intent for Trump Tower Moscow to see if it's normal for this kind of thing? cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2018/image…
Under its terms, "the Trump Organization stood to earn substantial sums over the lifetime of the project, without assuming significant liabilities or financing commitments," according to the Mueller report.
Including "a $4 million "up-front fee" prior to groundbreaking."
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The Biden admin has been instrumental in creating a unified front against Putin.
So why didn't Putin try this when Trump was in the WH and no such effort would have been made by the US? washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/…
I know there are good answers to this question and yet, I can't quite shake wondering about it.
I think part of the answer is Putin miscalculated and didn't extract as much as he could out of Trump's presidency, perhaps expecting there would be a 2nd term.
To do so, I had to create an avatar and then meet up with TRADOC and press officer avatars in a virtual conference room where I was shown a Power Point presentation. jstor.org/stable/2482786…
At one point, I got lost on the Army island and just wandered aimlessly on a virtual mountaintop.
Eventually the Army folks found me and helped me get back to headquarters.
Fascinating intvu btw @cwarzel & @swodinsky about covering the adtech beat.
Reminds me of covering the defense industry.
"A lot of this stuff is like, purposefully dense and dull. And the most interesting stuff is always the most impenetrable shit." warzel.substack.com/p/the-internet…
"I was looking into a story about Palantir and I found out they were easily able to sell their insights tech to the federal government using flashy campaigns and sales pitches. But they couldn’t really sell themselves to marketers..."
First, Miller says on Jan. 3 & 4, he convened Cabinet-level calls to prepare and coordinate for Jan. 6.
As Miller himself says, this is NOT a job for the secretary of defense.
Where was National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien?
In Miller's own words:
"It is not in the best interests of the citizens of the United States, our Armed Forces or our constitutional form of
government for the Department of Defense to take a lead role in organizing a domestic law enforcement response."
"It is not permissible for Facebook to keep a user off the platform for an undefined period, with no criteria for when or whether the account will be restored."