OK, assuming Putin gets serious about the Trump plan on January 22nd, 2016, (as per the Guardian documents), around those dates it has started to seem ridiculously easy to lure Trump in.

14 January 2016
Michael Cohen emails Dmitry Peskov, gov press secretary re Tower project.
16 January 2016
Cohen emails Peskov request to speak to Sergei Ivanov, Putin’s chief of staff.

20 January 2016
Cohen speaks to Peskov’s assistant, Elena Poliakova, asks for assistance with Tower project. She says she’ll follow up with others in Russia.
21 January 2016
Sater texts Cohen: call me, it’s about Putin they called today.

25 January 2016
On behalf of Andrei Ryabinksiy of MHJ company, Sater sends Cohen invitation to Moscow to discuss Tower project and organise follow-up visit from Trump.
And then of course
January 28 Thursday — Donald Trump loaned his campaign $2,913,761.
January 28 Thursday — 7th Republican Party presidential debate, Des Moines, Iowa
January 30 Saturday — Paul Manafort met up with Tom Barrack to ask for help getting position on Trump canpaign.

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