Trump tried to swat away several questions from reporters on Wednesday about his ties to Russia. “I have nothing to do with Russia,” he told one journalist. “How many times do I have to say that? Are you a smart man? I have nothing to do with Russia.”
Trump has repeatedly tried to do business in Russia, and Russian investors have been important to his real estate empire, particularly in recent years.
In 2008, Trump’s son Donald Jr. told a real estate conference in New York that Russians constitute “a pretty disproportionate cross-section” of Trump’s real estate assets. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia,” he added.
According to litigation filed in Florida, Trump’s partners on a Panama project traveled to Moscow in 2006 to sell condos to Russian investors. Trump also sold a mansion in Palm Beach in 2008 for $95 million to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev; he had purchased the home at a bankruptcy auction four years earlier for $41.4 million.
Trump has also sought to build a tower in Moscow numerous times since the late 1980s, when he said he had a deal to explore a Trump project in partnership with the Soviet government. His most recent effort came after a Putin ally, Aras Agalarov, known as the Trump of Russia, paid Trump millions to bring the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow in 2013. Agalarov has told The Washington Post that he inked a preliminary deal to bring a Trump project to the Russian capital.
“We will be in Moscow at some point,” Trump promised in a 2007 deposition.
Trump Organization General Counsel Alan Garten also outlined the company’s interest in Russia to The Post in May. “We’re always looking to expand and do projects all over the world. I have no doubt, as a company, I know we’ve looked at deals in Russia. And many of the former Russian republics,” he said.
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Trump has repeatedly tried to do business in Russia, and Russian investors have been important to his real estate empire, particularly in recent years.
In 2008, Trump’s son Donald Jr. told a real estate conference in New York that Russians constitute “a pretty disproportionate cross-section” of Trump’s real estate assets. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia,” he added.
According to litigation filed in Florida, Trump’s partners on a Panama project traveled to Moscow in 2006 to sell condos to Russian investors. Trump also sold a mansion in Palm Beach in 2008 for $95 million to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev; he had purchased the home at a bankruptcy auction four years earlier for $41.4 million.
Trump has also sought to build a tower in Moscow numerous times since the late 1980s, when he said he had a deal to explore a Trump project in partnership with the Soviet government. His most recent effort came after a Putin ally, Aras Agalarov, known as the Trump of Russia, paid Trump millions to bring the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow in 2013. Agalarov has told The Washington Post that he inked a preliminary deal to bring a Trump project to the Russian capital.
“We will be in Moscow at some point,” Trump promised in a 2007 deposition.
Trump Organization General Counsel Alan Garten also outlined the company’s interest in Russia to The Post in May. “We’re always looking to expand and do projects all over the world. I have no doubt, as a company, I know we’ve looked at deals in Russia. And many of the former Russian republics,” he said.
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