Two Key Questions on the Trump Tower Project

US President Donald Trump (L) chats with Russia's President Vladimir Putin as they attend the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit in the central Vietna... US President Donald Trump (L) chats with Russia's President Vladimir Putin as they attend the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on November 11, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SPUTNIK / Mikhail KLIMENTYEV (Photo credit should read MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS

By Josh Marshall

December 19, 2018 4:35 p.m.

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As I noted this morning, last night for the first time we had the first concrete evidence and proof of the Trump Moscow project, even though we’d basically known the facts for months. Since we’ve now actually seen the Letter of Intent (LOI) document, that’s spurred a number of the new questions. I’d like to address two of them that have come up in your reader emails.

The first is, how much was this deal worth?

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