The Washington Post reported last night on the existence of an ultimately abandoned plan to develop a Trump Tower in Moscow during late 2015 and early 2016 — right before the start of the 2016 presidential primaries. And today, the NYT and WaPo dropped two new reports detailing emails about the project from Felix Sater, a Trump business associate, and Michael Cohen, a close friend of Trump's and an executive vice president at The Trump Organization.

Sater's emails were sent to Cohen and boasted of connections to Russian President Vladimir Putin that would allow the project to get completed and help "get Donald elected."

that would allow the project to get completed and help "get Donald elected." Cohen emailed Putin's personal spokesman to ask for help in getting the stalled project started again.

The kicker: ABC News continued the pile on this afternoon with a report that Trump knew about the Moscow project and had personally signed a letter of intent for it, contradicting his repeated assertions that he has had no business dealings in Russia.

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