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Top lawyer, Trump deputy talks about prisoner swap he negotiated in Eastern Europe

New York Post·Cindy Adams·29 days ago
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Attorney John Coale speaks next to President Donald Trump at Trump golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. REUTERS Envoy’s exchanging words Last week,  newspapers reported , “Prisoner swap in Eastern Europe frees 10 people, including accused spies.” The story credited “President Trump’s envoy for Belarus, John Coale, who helped negotiate the exchange.” Insiders — like way inside the White House — they know lawyer John Coale. Me, I know John Coale. It was dinners, evenings, boat rides, his newswoman wife Greta Van Susteren, mutual friends such as journalist Elaine Lafferty. A nonsmoker, conversation included his — and only due to him — late ’90s $368 billion settlement which he himself won from the tobacco industry. He was special. Smart. A born Democrat, a Trump friend, also a Trump lawyer. Title? Deputy assistant to the president. He became special envoy for Belarus. Smarts made him friendly with Alexander Lukashenko, the country’s leader, since 1994.…

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