The more interesting House hearing is Felix Sater’s before the Intelligence committee since it could yield some better answers assuming there’s no phalanx of WH lawyers. Sater says ‘I will answer every question’. But will there be a transcript from the closed door meeting. Details from the Trump World Tower project in Moscow beyond the Cohen testimony, the Steele Dossier, and the Mueller report would be welcome.
Trump’s desire to distract attention with a dog-wagging military strike showed only briefly last night when he chose to cancel an attack on Iran as a reprisal for the US drone shot down in the Strait of Hormuz.
Sater’s private appearance may help congressional Democrats’ effort to investigate the potentially lucrative Moscow Trump tower deal that Trump chased while running for president—when he was insisting he had nothing to do with Russia (or with Sater, who had previously worked with Trump). Sater could be a dramatic witness in any public setting. He attempted to broker this deal as part of an effort to help Trump win the presidency. And his past is certainly colorful: He once went to jail for assault, he was part of a mob-connected stock swindler, and he also served as an informant for the US intelligence and law enforcement agencies. But the public won’t get to see Sater tell the story of Trump’s efforts to make millions in Russia while running for president.
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Sater told Mother Jones that he thought the committee might prefer a closed session given the amount of sensitive national security information that could come up. “I can understand that there is [too] much NATSEC stuff for them to be comfortable with it being public,” he noted, perhaps referring to his previous role as a US government informant.
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