JumpinJack
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Bill Clinton said on national tv, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." The country was shocked, SHOCKED! that he denied such a thing based on a technicality.
Now we have Trump saying: “I own nothing in Russia. I have no loans in Russia. I don't have any deals in Russia.” And "I have nothing to do with Russia." Notice the preposition "in" in one of those Trump statements.
“Russia is one of the hottest places in the world for investment,” Trump said in a 2007 deposition. “We will be in Moscow at some point,” he promised. ***
Trump’s 1987 trip ... to scope out sites for luxury hotels he hoped to build in a joint venture with the Kremlin’s hotel and tourism agency, according to Trump’s memoir, “The Art of the Deal,” which was published the same year.***
In 1996, Trump tried to partner with U.S. tobacco executives to build a luxury condominium complex in Moscow.***
In 2005, Trump signed a one-year deal with a New York development company to explore a Trump Tower in Moscow.***
In his 2008 speech, Donald Jr. announced that he had traveled to Russia six times in the previous 18 months.***
As Trump looked for deals in Russia, Russian consumers became a key market for his real estate projects in the United States and elsewhere. Trump’s partners on a Panama project traveled to Moscow in 2006 to sell condos to Russian investors, according to litigation filed in Florida. Trump also sold a mansion in Palm Beach in 2008 for $95 million to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev, according to property records. ***
Trump’s top aides, too, have had ties to Russia. Campaign chairman Paul Manafort has done multimillion-dollar business deals with pro-Russian oligarchs and was a longtime adviser to the Russia-aligned Ukrainian president whose 2014 ouster triggered Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, a major source of tension between Russia and the United States as well as its NATO allies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-trumps-financial-ties-to-russia-and-his-unusual-flattery-of-vladimir-putin/2016/06/17/dbdcaac8-31a6-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html?utm_term=.e4072137b9be
"I guess I sell condos to Russians."
Back in 2008, Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. told investors in Moscow that the Trump Organization had trademarked the Donald Trump name in Russia and planned to build housing and hotels in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sochi, and to sell licenses to other developers, according to the Russian daily Kommersant.
Russian billionaire Aras Agalarov spent $20 million to hold the Miss Universe Pageant that Trump brought to Moscow in 2013. The venue was Agalarov’s Crocus City Hall on the outskirts of Moscow. During Trump’s stay in Moscow, the two became so close that Trump even took part in a music video with Agalarov’s son, Emin.
“When Donald Trump was here in Moscow he said a lot of good things about our country, our culture, our people,” Agalarov told Komsomolskaya Pravda in 2015. “And in his interviews he says that if he becomes president of the United States he will certainly keep in mind that he has friends in Russia.”
Trump says 'I have nothing to do with Russia.' That's not exactly true
There are other business connections of the Trump organization and family with Russia. He's been trying to make big deals in Russia for the last 30 years, and has very close business and personal ties with Russia and with Russians who live outside of Russia.
Now we have Trump saying: “I own nothing in Russia. I have no loans in Russia. I don't have any deals in Russia.” And "I have nothing to do with Russia." Notice the preposition "in" in one of those Trump statements.
***Since the 1980s, Trump and his family members have made numerous trips to Moscow in search of business opportunities, and they have relied on Russian investors to buy their properties around the world.***
“Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” Trump’s son, Donald Jr., told a real estate conference in 2008, according to an account posted on the website of eTurboNews, a trade publication. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.” ***
On the campaign trail, Trump has called for a new partnership with Moscow, overhauling NATO, the allied military force seen as the chief protector of pro-Western nations near Russia. And Trump has surrounded himself with a team of advisers who have had financial ties to Russia.
“Russia is one of the hottest places in the world for investment,” Trump said in a 2007 deposition. “We will be in Moscow at some point,” he promised. ***
Trump’s 1987 trip ... to scope out sites for luxury hotels he hoped to build in a joint venture with the Kremlin’s hotel and tourism agency, according to Trump’s memoir, “The Art of the Deal,” which was published the same year.***
In 1996, Trump tried to partner with U.S. tobacco executives to build a luxury condominium complex in Moscow.***
In 2005, Trump signed a one-year deal with a New York development company to explore a Trump Tower in Moscow.***
In his 2008 speech, Donald Jr. announced that he had traveled to Russia six times in the previous 18 months.***
As Trump looked for deals in Russia, Russian consumers became a key market for his real estate projects in the United States and elsewhere. Trump’s partners on a Panama project traveled to Moscow in 2006 to sell condos to Russian investors, according to litigation filed in Florida. Trump also sold a mansion in Palm Beach in 2008 for $95 million to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev, according to property records. ***
Trump’s top aides, too, have had ties to Russia. Campaign chairman Paul Manafort has done multimillion-dollar business deals with pro-Russian oligarchs and was a longtime adviser to the Russia-aligned Ukrainian president whose 2014 ouster triggered Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, a major source of tension between Russia and the United States as well as its NATO allies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-trumps-financial-ties-to-russia-and-his-unusual-flattery-of-vladimir-putin/2016/06/17/dbdcaac8-31a6-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html?utm_term=.e4072137b9be
"I guess I sell condos to Russians."
Back in 2008, Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. told investors in Moscow that the Trump Organization had trademarked the Donald Trump name in Russia and planned to build housing and hotels in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sochi, and to sell licenses to other developers, according to the Russian daily Kommersant.
Russian billionaire Aras Agalarov spent $20 million to hold the Miss Universe Pageant that Trump brought to Moscow in 2013. The venue was Agalarov’s Crocus City Hall on the outskirts of Moscow. During Trump’s stay in Moscow, the two became so close that Trump even took part in a music video with Agalarov’s son, Emin.
“When Donald Trump was here in Moscow he said a lot of good things about our country, our culture, our people,” Agalarov told Komsomolskaya Pravda in 2015. “And in his interviews he says that if he becomes president of the United States he will certainly keep in mind that he has friends in Russia.”
Trump says 'I have nothing to do with Russia.' That's not exactly true
There are other business connections of the Trump organization and family with Russia. He's been trying to make big deals in Russia for the last 30 years, and has very close business and personal ties with Russia and with Russians who live outside of Russia.