snip...The letter says the footnote includes only part of Rtskhiladze’s text exchange with then-Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen, failing to provide the full context. The FBI and Mueller’s team “spliced the dialogue to produce the ugly insinuations and allegations of Footnote 112 to attract publicity — all while impugning Mr. Rtskhiladze’s character,” according to his attorney, A. Scott Bolden..../snip
snip...Still, Mueller’s report wrongly identified Rtskhiladze as Russian, the letter says. In fact, he is from the Republic of Georgia but moved in 1991 to the U.S. and became a U.S. citizen in 2017. ...Rtskhiladze said he has nothing against Russians. “Russia is a great culture,” he said. “I’m just not Russian.”.../snip