Wait so Trump was going to give Putin something ? Was he trying to hack the Russian elections?
Trump wasn’t President back then and the problem for Mueller and his band of 17 Angry Democrats is the Russians had no way of knowing Trump would be elected President in 2016.
You can’t blackmail someone who can’t do you a favor. And no one would have bet on Trump in 2016 and the Trump Tower timeline is an immaterial fact.
No one would even be looking at it had Trump lost the election.