Special counsel Robert Mueller is asking questions about President Trump’s children — Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. — and their roles in efforts to bring a Trump Tower to Moscow, Yahoo reported.
According to sources who spoke to Yahoo, some of Ivanka and Trump Jr.’s efforts were separate from the work Michael Cohen was doing to pursue a deal. Ivanka helped recommend an architect and Trump Jr. was “peripherally” apprised to plans, according to Yahoo.
While both of the Trump children’s’ efforts concluded in 2013, both were also aware of Cohen’s attempts to develop in Moscow until at least January 2016. However, a source familiar with the Trump Organization said their knowledge of Cohen’s efforts was limited to the time period he described to Congress, which — as revealed by his guilty plea on Thursday — was untruthful.
“There’s no question they knew about it, but they had no knowledge of any work on the project after January 2016,” the source told Yahoo.
Cohen pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying Congress about how long he pursued the potential deal in Moscow, which was under consideration as late as 2016.
