August 28, 2017 01:15 PM UTC

Drip, Drip, Drippety Drip

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• by: Colorado Pols

As the Washington Post reports today, there’s more bad news for supporters of President Trump regarding investigations into potential collusion/collaboration with Russia in 2016:

A top executive from Donald Trump’s real estate company emailed Vladi­mir Putin’s personal spokesman during the U.S. presidential campaign last year to ask for help advancing a stalled Trump Tower development project in Moscow, according to documents submitted to Congress Monday.

Michael Cohen, a Trump attorney and executive vice president for the Trump Organization, sent the email in January 2016 to Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin’s top press aide…

…Cohen’s email marks the most direct interaction yet documented of a top Trump aide and a similarly senior member of Putin’s government.

The email shows the Trump business official directly seeking Kremlin assistance in advancing Trump’s business interests, in the same months when Trump was distinguishing himself on the campaign trail with his warm rhetoric about Putin.

Cohen is a longtime Trump friend and confidant who didn’t have a “formal” role during Trump’s 2016 campaign but was often seen and heard in the media as a Trump surrogate.