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Despite some successes, like overseeing the construction of the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago, Don continued to get his famous name caught up in the wrong deals. In 2006, he helped launch a mortgage brokerage called Trump Mortgage, bragging that it was the only company in a $3 trillion industry that anyone has actually heard of. Within months it was defunct, an early casualty of the housing crisis. In 2006, he was kicked off the condo board of the Trump apartment building at 220 Riverside Drive in Manhattan, amid board members' concerns that $80,000 of the condo's money had disappeared on account of nebulous office expenses. (He was eventually reinstated.)
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By the time his father ran for president, Don had cultivated a public image as a kind of prudent sidekick. He appeared on The Apprentice as an earnest good cop to his dad's bellicose You're fired character. As Don peddled his father's business ventures around the world, he came into plenty of contact with Russians. In terms of high-end product influx into the U.S., Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross section of a lot of our assets, say, in Dubai and certainly with our project in SoHo and anywhere in New York, he said at an industry conference in 2008. (The Trump SoHo project, which he developed with Sater, ended up being sued for fraud, resulting in a settlement.) We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.
Don repeatedly tried to develop Trump properties in Russia, but despite the country's lucrative oil boomand the gilded dovetailing of Trump and Russian aestheticshe couldn't quite manage Moscow and its corruption. It is a question of who knows who, whose brother is paying off who, et cetera, he said after making half a dozen trips there in a year and a half. It really is a scary place.
The most infamous of his failed Russian dealsthe one that backfired monumentally and now may imperil his father's presidencyhad nothing to do with real estate. In June 2016, when a set of Russians with oblique ties to the Kremlin reached out to Don through an intermediary promising damaging information on Hillary Clinton that would be very useful to your father, Junior couldn't have been more curious. If it's what you say, Don infamously wrote back to them, I love it.
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https://www.gq.com/story/real-story-of-donald-trump-jr
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(60,010 posts)In terms of high-end product influx into the U.S., Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross section of a lot of our assets, say, in Dubai and certainly with our project in SoHo and anywhere in New York,
Jeez..sounds exactly his dad. I think I know what he is saying, but have to parse it out a couple of times.