A long time ago, in early 2011, Trump began teasing a possible presidential run. He claimed that “hundreds of thousands” of people had urged him to visit an independent site called ShouldTrumpRun.com. So what is ShouldTrumpRun.com? Come on this journey with me.
Rumors have been circling the Web that real estate billionaire Donald Trump will run for US President on the Republican ticket in…
ShouldTrumpRun.com launched in late 2010. It was ostensibly an independent site to test the waters on a potential Trump run in 2012. It even explicitly stated at the bottom that it was “not endorsed by Donald Trump.”
But this was not an independent site. It was founded by Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen, along with two local lobbyists who, at the time, were helping Trump push through a doomed project at Jones Beach on Long Island.
The site actually got Cohen in trouble with the FEC. After Cohen took a private plane to Iowa to test the waters for Trump, someone filed a complaint against Cohen. For a time earlier this year, ShouldTrumpRun.com redirected to a letter from the FEC on the subject.
Cohen was cleared by the FEC of any wrongdoing because Trump was not an officially declared candidate at the time of the Iowa trip.
Who signed that decision?
Then-FEC VP/Current WH attorney Don McGahn.
What are those lobbyists doing now? They set up a new office in DC after Trump was elected. They have an eclectic lobbying practice, ranging from lobbying the Department of Defense on behalf of a summer camp company to lobbying Congress on behalf of the “Turkish-American Gulen Movement.”
But that doesn’t mean Cohen and the lobbyists have stopped working together.
No.
They now represent Cohen in his lawsuit against FusionGPS.
Funny aside: Cohen and the lobbyists did not register ShouldTrumpRun.com themselves. That was an internet marketer from Brooklyn named Igor Berezner.
Berezner runs an Internet marketing company that offers “social media brand amplification.” But recently, Berezner has gone big with cryptocurrency. He even goes by the handle “BTCMilli” (for Bitcoin Millionaire) on Twitter. He has been logging many crypto URLs, including crypto-ruble.net.
Which brings us to today. What does ShouldTrumpRun.com look like now? You guessed it: CRYPTO!!! The URL, which Berezner still owns, redirects to this site:
Now with a name like Igor I’m using the current owner of shouldtrumprun.com is Russian… so you know what that means.
