Kremlin confirms that Trump lawyer tried to orchestrate a business deal during 2016 campaign.

Michael Cohen

Courtesy of WaPo: 

The Kremlin on Wednesday confirmed that President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer reached out to them during the 2016 presidential campaign, seeking help for a business project in Russia. 

In a statement to the House Intelligence Committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen said Monday the president’s company pursued a project in Moscow during the Republican primary. He said the plan was abandoned for various reasons. 

President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters in Moscow on Wednesday that they received Cohen’s email, which was sent to the press office’s general email address. Peskov said it was one of many emails the Kremlin press office gets — since its email address is available online — and that the Kremlin did not reply to it.

The discussions about a real estate deal in Moscow occurred in the fall of 2015, months after Trump had declared his presidential bid. They ended early in 2016 when Cohen determined that the project was not feasible, according to Cohen’s statement. 

Cohen also disclosed that Trump was personally aware of the deal, signing a letter of intent and discussing it with Cohen on two other occasions. 

Asked whether Putin had seen the email, Peskov said Wednesday that he “cannot discuss with President Putin the hundreds and thousands of various requests coming from different countries” that end up in that Kremlin mailbox. 

Peskov said the press office did not reply to Cohen’s email because it “does not react to such business requests. It is not our job.”

Okay well the first thing that needs to be clarified is that if a presidential candidate from America is attempting to do a deal in Russia, of COURSE Vladimir Putin was informed about it.

Secondly Trump's attorney admitted that this deal was being worked on with the assistance of Felix Sater, whose email was a little more.....descriptive: 

The associate, Felix Sater, wrote a series of emails to Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, in which he boasted about his ties to Mr. Putin. He predicted that building a Trump Tower in Moscow would highlight Mr. Trump’s savvy negotiating skills and be a political boon to his candidacy. 

“Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it,” Mr. Sater wrote in an email. “I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.” 

Even though they cleaned all of this up a little in their response, one has to wonder just WHY the Kremlin would voluntarily confirm that this deal was proffered during the 2016 campaign.

They have to know that it only helps the investigations into Russian collusion, and further damages Trump's credibility.

So does this mean that they are so disappointed in their puppet's performance that they are willing to throw him to the wolves?

Could be.