Thread by @SollySollinger

Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS offered some pretty interesting facts about Michael Cohen in his House Intelligence testimony on 11/14/17. "So Mr. Cohen had a very different image for much of the campaign as a sort of pugnacious NY lawyer . . ."

2/"and we gradually began to see that he was -- people told us he spoke Russian. His father-in-law is from Ukraine. He seems to have a lot of business dealings over there and, in fact, has a conviction for a money laundering-related crime." (p47).

3/"Cohen was very adamant that he didn't actually have a connection to Sergi Millian, even though he was one of only 100 people who followed
Sergi on Twitter. And they had Twitter messages back and forth between
the two of them just - we just pulled them off of Twitter." (p45)

4/This is Sergei Millian if you don't remember: motherjones.com/politics/2017/…

5/"We gradually began to understand more about Michael Cohen, the President's lawyer, & his background, & that he had a lot of connections to the former Soviet Union, & that he seemed to have associations with organized crime figures in NY & Fla, Russian organized crime figures."

6/ "I didn't understand Michael Cohen to be a significant figure in the
DT world for a long part of this project. We eventually began to realize that he was a lot more than, you know, the President's sort of pit bull personal attorney and that he was the person who . . . "(p81)

7/"One of the things that we learned that caught my interest was that serious questions about DT's activities in Russia went to Michael Cohen, & that he was the only person who had information on that subject or was in a position to answer those questions." Id.

8/"there is a specific sequence of events that has intrigued us for a long time, where Cohen, lvanka, Jared & Trump, & I can't remember whether Manafort's in this mix too, are all in the Hamptons area in Aug., and Dmitry Rybolovlev's plane is somewhere nearby, and flies to Nice."

9/" and then, you know, I think it's the 12th of August, Rybolovlev's plane lands in Dubrovnik, and Jared and lvanka surface in Dubrovnik.

To refresh your memory, Dmitry Rybolovlev is nydailynews.com/news/politics/…