Former Trump Biz Associate Felix Sater Meeting With Senate Intel Panel

Donald Trump, Tevfik Arif and Felix Sater attend the Trump Soho Launch Party on September 19, 2007 in New York. (Photo by Mark Von Holden/WireImage)
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Felix Sater, a former business partner of President Donald Trump and a figure in the Russia investigation, is meeting with the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, BuzzFeed News reported.

Sater (pictured above on the right) was spotted by BuzzFeed News entering the committee’s secure work space on Wednesday morning.

Sater’s work for the Trump Organization and alleged involvement in a pitch for a “peace plan” between Ukraine and Russia have made him a figure in the Russia probe. He has already spoken to the House Intelligence Committee and special counsel Robert Mueller’s team.

He worked for the Trump Organization to help fund the Trump SoHo building and tried to land a deal for a Trump building in Moscow. He went on to serve as an adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign in 2015.

In 2017, Sater sent a “peace plan” for Ukraine and Russia to longtime Trump lawyer Michael Cohen while he was working with a Ukrainian politician on an energy trading deal. Cohen then passed along the Russia-friendly plan to the Trump White House.

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  1. Avatar for ghost ghost says:

    And someone in the Trump camp says Donnie barely knew Sater and Sater was just a coffee boy in three…two…one…

  2. You know, there are times when I really suspect that the goal of Grassley and the other Goopers on this committee and the House committee is simply to pump what information that those called before it (like Sater) actually have and/or what they are willing to share in order to pass that information on to the WH in order for them to assess what Mueller might have (or be about to get).

    'Cause they (excluding the Dem minority) sure don’t want to do anything seriousabout the information.

  3. I hope that committee members and staffers are wearing surgical masks and rubber gloves.

  4. If I recall correctly Sater was, in fact, one of the first people Trump claimed to not really know—“If he was in the room I wouldn’t know him,” that sort of stuff. Because he knows people like Sater put him right in.

    HEY SPELL CHECKER I’m not talking about someone named “Water” or “Later.” Sheesh.

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