The House Intelligence Committee is expected to hear Tuesday from a businessman who worked with the Trump Organization on a couple of projects, including briefly discussing building a Trump tower in Moscow.
Giorgi Rtskhiladze, a native of Georgia who is a U.S. citizen, expects to be quizzed Tuesday by the committee’s staff about his brief role in the Trump Moscow development discussions and about a more provocative topic: a text message he sent to Michael Cohen shortly before the 2016 election that was cited in the recent report by Robert S. Mueller III.
The text sent by Rtskhiladze in October 2016 said he had “stopped the flow of tapes from Russia,” presumably a reference to reports of videotapes that might be embarrassing to then-candidate Donald Trump.
View the complete June 24 article by Tom Hamburger on The Washington Post website here.