I’ve always been of the impression that Trump doesn’t even use email.
Trump doesn’t use email nor texts. Big thing is why would it be significant for Cohen to lie about the Tower project to Congress, it doesn’t seem like a big deal to tell someone to lie about it
I don't know. One of the other stories made reference to internal company communications, and any emails could, I suppose, have been written by others.
I am entirely agnostic about the Buzzfeed story. Perhaps it is another false report. Perhaps Mueller has something. Trump is incredibly careless verbally. I hope he is more careful in writing, but based on his tweets, I wouldn't bet on it.
The fact that Trump was interested in doing a deal in Moscow has always been well know. The fact that Trump, at X point in the campaign, said he had no business dealings in Russia is on the record. We can speculate endlessly about hypotheticals. Trump may have said, sort of truthfully, that he had no business dealing, even though at that very moment he was diligently working to pull off a deal. This would rest on making the distinction that his hope of a future deal did not, in the present tense, constitute a business interest in Russia. That would be a messy distinction to defend, especially with virtually the entire news media howling his guilt, but if that is where we are, Trump needs to be very, very careful about what he says. And we need to hope he has careful and consistent in what he has said in the past.
I seem to recall a furor over, It depends on what the meaning of the word is, is." I hope that's not where this is headed.
Another hypothetical is that Trump will take the position that the Moscow deal became an unlikely, low-priority backburner project sometime in 2015, and that later updates continuing through the 2016 primary season were perfunctory and essentially immaterial. Or that lower level people kept working the project but that Trump's personal involvement was de minimis. A whole lot of stories will need to line up properly to hold that together.
Or perhaps the Buzzfeed story is yet another exercise in guilt by innuendo, based on stringing together trivialities viewed in the worst possible light.
The sooner Mueller makes his report, the better.