He oversaw nearly all the foreign deals as the Trump Org shifted its focus to sketchy third-tier overseas oligarchs.
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Cohen did neither. He was a deal maker. The only non-Trump deal maker doing all those international deals.
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If he were to flip, it would be Ivanka and Don, Jr. who should be most worried.
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Cohen knows how much they knew. He knows what he told them.
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Cohen then worked on the Trump Moscow deal in 2015/2016.
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It was stunning that Trump made Cohen his sole personal attorney post-election. Cohen left the Trump Org to form a firm with one client: the President.
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Short of Ivanka or Don, Jr. flipping, Cohen is the key witness.
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Also key: it's been a rough year-plus for Cohen. He lost his place in Trump's inner-circle, didn't get the big ticket to the WH.
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I would also guess that there are NY state charges.
Mueller, of course, knows all this and much more and referred the raid anyway.
It's on now.
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