A contract is considered “executed” when both parties sign the deal.

“If money changed hands during the campaign, then that means Russia got its corrupt tentacles into the heart of the Trump organization,” a former Russia director on the National Security Council, Dr. Michael R. Carpenter told me, after examining the written agreement today.

“In addition to whatever kompromat they may have already had on Trump,” says Carpenter. “This would have been the icing on the cake.”

Reports of a Moscow City deal to build a Trump Tower emerged in August 2017 and former Trump Org executive and presidential personal lawyer Michael Cohen denied at the time that the business deal progressed past October 2015, professing that the deal was not signed.

In September 2017, a copy of the Trump Tower Moscow contract leaked to the media, and it wasn’t signed by Trump.

But this past December, Cohen pled guilty to lying to Congress, specifically to mislead them over the Moscow City Trump Twitter agreement.

CNN obtained the fully executed agreement soon afterward.

It turns out that not only did it continue through the entire GOP primary, but the agreement was actually signed, meaning the payment came due and that Donald Trump certainly knows about the Trump Tower Moscow deal he denied throughout the campaign.

Signature block in the Trump Tower Moscow license agreement.

The Moscow City deal wasn’t even the only Trump Tower development plan kicking around in Moscow in 2015, while Trump started running for the Republican presidential nomination.

Donald Trump also had a signed deal with his Miss Universe 2013 hosts Crocus City, the realty company owned by Russian oligarch Aras Agalarov. That earlier Trump Tower plan was most likely sidelined by its source of funds.

After Trump inked the deal with Agalarov, state-owned Sberbank – who agreed to fund the tower with Agalarov – got sanctioned by the US government after the Russian Federation’s illegal land annexation of Crimea.

“Trump has never done anything for free,” says Democratic Coalition senior advisor Scott Dworkin who pointed out that the agreement calls for a generous up-front payment last week. “If Trump’s former lawyer Cohen was planning a trip to Moscow as late as June 2016, eight months later, then they probably bagged the million dollars.”

Public corruption cases require a quid pro quo, a favor for a favor.

If Donald Trump collected a million dollars up front from Russian interests while running for the Republican Presidential nomination and Mueller’s investigators found the money, it could become the first hard evidence of the most consequential bribery crime in American history.