A thread to accompany this video I just finished on Felix Sater. Just when you thought it couldn't get more odd, in comes information that leaves you shaking your head. Please watch the video as well, it helps me:
1. Background: Felix Sater is a longtime friend of Trump attorney Michael Cohen. Since childhood, friend. Note: (The more I research the more I fear Cohen is a bad dude.. #justsayin )
2. In the 90's, he was implicated (and later convicted) of stock fraud. He was "converted" into a serious US intelligence asset in 1998, with ties to then State Attorney LORETTA LYNCH, who spoke about him directly in the questioning for her nomination. judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/… 
3. The connection to Lynch was glossed over in all of the articles written about Sater. In his time as an informant who found missing missiles, helped convict La Cosa Nostra members, helped track Bin Laden, etc., he also had ties to??
4. Andrew Weissman. They worked a case together for several years, actually. Yes- THE lead attorney appointed by Mueller on the Trump/Russia collusion scandal. This wouldn't be the first time Weismann was shady. (Mueller was FBI director during this time) slate.com/blogs/the_slat…
5. In addition to all of the covert intelligence work he was doing, Sater also had time to start a real estate development firm called Bayrock. You can find all of this information in detail in the links I will provide below the thread.
6. Bayrock was working with Michael Cohen (on behalf of the Trump Organization) in 2015 (DURING THE CAMPAIGN) to try to secure a licensing deal for Trump Tower Moscow. There was a letter of intent signed by Trump that was later rescinded. This is how Sater is pulled in to Mueller
7. The way the emails are written are so overt it is almost ridiculous- in the same way that I feel P-dops emails about meeting with Russians are ridiculous. They are so over the top it is obvious. Just like the supposed "Russian fingerprints" on the DNC servers are overt-get it?
8. They never did the deal. Cohen states he spoke with Trump about it 3 times, as he was in charge of managing it. archive.is/1C58V and abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump…
9. In this same ABC article, Cohen also says he reached out to the press secretary for Putin at the request of Sater..... Ok......
10. Sater claims he is close with Trump. When he ran Bayrock he took up residence in Trump Tower and would bring various "deals" for licensing to Trump. Almost all failed. There was one that worked out in Florida, and almost got the Trumps busted for fraud (but didn't)
11. When you do a licensing deal, it's great- because if the project works out good, you get the recognition/money. If it works out bad, you can say that it was "just a licensing deal" and you don't have to take credit for the failure. That's what Florida was.
12. It was during this testimony in 2013 - and NOT recently - that Trump made the claim that he didn't know who Sater was, stating "I mean, I've seen him a couple of times; I have met him" and "If he were sitting in the room right now, I really wouldn't know what he looked like"
13. As soon as Trump found out about Sater's ties to organized crime, he cut all contact with him. In the testimony from Florida, when asked if he knew who owned Bayrock, Trump reiterated he didn't know how their organizational structure worked. It was testy for him.
15. So, Cohen maintains contact, and it appears Trump cuts it the heck off. There is so much more here- but for brevity, I will leave it like that.
16. Before we move on to the next amazing piece of the puzzle, here is an article from 2013 about him being a CIA asset courthousenews.com/did-cia-helpa-…
17. And here is the unsealed 129 page doc on "Doe" who is Sater: documentcloud.org/documents/4406…
18. And one more: Here is a brief clip where Sater downplays his Russian status and then plays it up in the same few sentences while trying to minimize the email he sent to Cohen. cnn.com/2018/03/16/pol…
19. It also appears as though Cohen, Sater, and Manafort, were working to broker a "peace" deal between Russia and the Ukraine, which they slipped to Gen Flynn before he was dismissed. This story is from February of last year. archive.is/H6ZGE
20. So to summarize, so far, we have at least two people who worked as former intelligence somehow looped into Trump/Russia- Carter Page (who I feel was used as a patsy) and now Sater. I haven't touched Deripaska yet.
21. We also have several people who overtly speak of Russia as though they are TRYING to get caught that I feel were PLANTED in the campaign to back engineer a Russia story, or worse. They are Papadopolous, Gates, Manafort, and maybe Cohen has a role in this somehow :(
22. For Sater to come out and openly speak about these things now is VERY dangerous for him given the level of work he did for our government with some pretty scary people. Why now? Was he going to be used as a fall guy?
23. Also, Sater acknowledges in the "Buzzfeed" piece that he HAS spoken with BOTH intelligence committees, so both committees know what he has and he has done, and still the House moved to say "no collusion"- there is nothing there with re: to Trump. Others? Not sure.
24. This just gave me more questions. It didn't answer much of anything for me. I am frustrated now, because I need to fit this all together. Mueller/Weissman et al are involved here, the whole thing is odd....
25. Here are links for you to explore. PLEASE READ THEM!!! judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
rawstory.com/2018/03/watch-…
rawstory.com/2018/03/watch-…
26. rawstory.com/2018/03/allege…
abcnews.go.com/Politics/sovie…
archive.is/1C58V
abcnews.go.com/Politics/sovie…
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archive.is/1C58V
abcnews.go.com/Politics/sovie…
28. politico.com/story/2018/03/…
archive.is/H6ZGE
nymag.com/daily/intellig…
bbc.com/news/uk-231528…
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