I'll start on 81-90
Pages 81-90 (report p73-p82)
Cohen's involvement with the attempted set up of meetings for Trump Tower, Moscow
Origins of PapaD joining Trump campaign
Summary:
Cohen attempts to set up meetings for Trump Tower with Russian officials via intermediaries during 2015 through to June 2016. No meetings actually occur.
Papadopoulos is told that Russia might have Clinton dirt soon after joining the Trump campaign. He suggests this to a representative of a foreign govt but does not share directly with the Trump campaign.
Key observations:
>Cohen is not good with details. He thought Klokov was an Olympian weightlifter and got an email address wrong. He also seemed to be depending on Sater to arrange meetings but he didn't seem to have the promised connections.
>Former aide to Russia's energy minister, Klokov, reaches out to Cohen via Klokov's wife's connection to Ivanka Trump
>Telephone record between Cohen and Poliakova forms part of a Grand Jury redaction. He requested assistance to move Trump Tower project forward.
>Sater emails Cohen to arrange visas for Cohen and Trump via Evgeney Dvoskin, an executive of a bank in Ukraine. This shows as a footnote with redaction for Grand Jury.
>Trump received a seperate invite to St Petersburg International Economic Forum from Sergei Prikhodko, Russian Deputy PM, which Trump declined via his PA.
>Robert Foresman unsolicited reaches out to the campaign via Graff (via Mark Burnett). States he has expertise in Russia and Ukraine and had set up private channel for Putin and George W Bush. Wanted a private meeting to discuss 'concrete things' that couldn't be done on email. No meeting was arranged.
>Soon after joining campaign PapaD was approached by Mifsud with info Russia had dirt on Clinton. PapaD did not tell the campaign this. Mifsud with 2 Russian Nationals then tried to arrange with PapaD a meeting between campaign and Russia. No meeting was arranged.
Page Summaries:
pg. 81 - Klokov attempted to arrange for Cohen to meet in Russia via phone calls and emails Nov 15, in order to then have the candidate meet with Putin. Cohen emphasised that any meetings be for the Trump Tower and not political. Cohen declined the offer due to already working with Sater who supposedley had his own connections to the Russian govt
pg. 82 - By Dec 15 Cohen decided to independently contact the Russian govt and attempted to send an email to Peskov but sent it to an incorrect email address. He then followed up with another to the correct email.
Cohen said he didn't recieve a response and stopped working on the project Jan 16. This was false and he continued to Jun 16 on the project.
pg. 83 - Peskov's PA Elena Poliakova contacted Cohen and they talked for 20 minutes about the project Jan 20 2016 [Grand Jury footnote 351]
pg. 84 - Sater followed this with an invite for Cohen to visit Moscow and later asked for passport images of Cohen and Trump's passports. Sater wrote in an email about speaking with Evgeny Dvoskin [Grand Jury footnote 359]
Cohen sent his and sent a request to Trump via Executive Assistant Rhona Graf.
pg. 85 Sater attempted to have Cohen and Trump attend the St Petersberg International Economic Forum held in June 16 - Trump declined as did Cohen who felt Russian officials were not involved with the invite
pg. 86 Investigation found there were 2 occasions there was a possibility of Trump going to Russia for the Trump Tower Project late 2015 and spring 2016. Both were declined.
pg. 87 88 Trump was invited by Deputy PM Prikhodko to the Forum - Graff prepared a letter to decline the offer
Rober Foresman (NY investment banker) then reached out to Graff on behalf of Anton Kobyakov (Russian presidential aide) to set up a meeting. This wasn't pursued.
pg. 89 PapaD joined Trump campaign in March 16 as foreign policy advisor
Mifsud told PapaD about dirt on Clinton in April 16 that Russia had obtained
May 6 16 PapaD 'suggested' to 'a representative of a foreign governement' [Downer not named] that Russia could assist with release of info on Clinton
PapaD shared this info with others outside of the campaign but not with the campaign.
pg. 90 PapaD had tried to join the campaign in summer 15 but they weren't looking for foreign advisors at that point so he joined Ben Carson's campaign until Feb 16
He then took a role in London at LCILP and contacted Trump campaign again. He was offered the role after the campaign decided they needed someone with his expertise.
Key Actors:
Cohen, Dmitry Klokov (Dir External Communications for PJSC Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System), Felix Sater (IC Expert), Elena Poliakova (PA for Russian Press Secretary Peskov), Robert Foresman, Papadopoulos