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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump just tweeted: I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!
Which is completely counter to what's known.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/819159806489591809
Editing to add a link to a DU thread I posted the other day about some of Trump's business dealing with Russia, and how Russians bailed him out of bankruptcy. Note, if you read the entire piece I'd found at Daily Kos, that this is based on three articles in the Financial Times:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028451762
Cha
(297,240 posts)#sad #very unfair!#but Russia said..
Aviation Pro
(12,168 posts)To communicate above the level of a three-year old, apparently.
highplainsdem
(48,978 posts)onetexan
(13,041 posts)It is maddening we have a psychotic liar about to take the highest office in the land yet our congress is unwilling to do anything to get him impeached.
MFM008
(19,814 posts)Is on the brink of changing our lives for the worse.
This piss soaked maggot gets to ruin the country and the planet??
Botany
(70,506 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)a double negative is a positive...
cornball 24
(1,475 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Maeve
(42,282 posts)highplainsdem
(48,978 posts)There is ample evidence in Russian media from that period in the 2000s that brokers mounted a significant effort to attract buyers to Trump properties in Florida, Toronto and New York. And Trump and his children participated in those campaigns.
During the marketing of the Trump SoHo project, in which Trump licensed his name to a group that included Russian investors, the Trump family met with a group of Russian journalists at their New York offices to help boost interest in the project, according to Russian media reports. During the meeting, Trump was quoted telling the gathering of Russian journalists: I really like Vladimir Putin. I respect him. He does his work well. Much better than our Bush.
Eric Trump and Donald Jr. were also present, and were quoted praising the importance of Russian condo buyers, many of whom have purchased units in Trump buildings in seven-figure, cash-only deals.
"As the experience of the past few years shows, the best property buyers now are Russian, Eric Trump is quoted as saying. They're different in that they can go around without a mortgage loan from American banks, that require income checks and they can buy apartments with cash.
Garten said the Trump Organization did not fly Russian journalists to New York to tout the SoHo project, or any other. If such a trip took place it would have likely been arranged by the developer or the broker for the project - not us, he said.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)to put out the very day the press is getting their first crack at him at the press conference.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Docreed2003
(16,859 posts)That being said, anyone else cringe every time he uses the word "deal/s"? It seems like such a juvenile term for a guy who's supposedly a "successful" businessman and he's been using the "deal" for decades...even his autobiography.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)If I saw that clown approaching me on a used car lot, I'd pick up my frightened children and run the other way.
Docreed2003
(16,859 posts)33taw
(2,442 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Every word out of his mouth is tainted by his total lack of ethics and disregard for the truth.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)oasis
(49,387 posts)of exonerating him from the whole Russia "thing".
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)I heard the press conference will be livestreamed.
womanofthehills
(8,710 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Birds are territorial creatures.
The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"[/center][/font][hr]
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)That would end it immediately, wouldn't it? You could PROVE to your detractors how wrong they are and wreak instant, sweet revenge. But you won't do it, will you?
Isn't that a pisser?
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panader0
(25,816 posts)was tied up in Russia? Anyone have that quote?
BainsBane
(53,032 posts)ask him about these things. It's a federal crime to lie to the FBI. Trump's habitual lying won't cut it.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)They are of no help to us.
BainsBane
(53,032 posts)Vinca
(50,273 posts)Release the tax returns.
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)release his tax returns.
calls to be made to your senators please.
barbtries
(28,795 posts)i think i might faint.
berksdem
(595 posts)Is corrupt but without hard evidence this is just another story that will lead to nowhere. Interested to see where this goes but right now we are not talking cold hard facts.
Zambero
(8,964 posts)At least the "potatoe" flap could be written off as an honest blunder. On the other hand, a literal interpretation of Trump's use of the double negative "no nothing" would imply that something is indeed pissy in Denmark.
Hugin
(33,147 posts)Charming.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)If only he got this much scrutiny during the election
onetexan
(13,041 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/302216-how-much-money-does-the-trump-organization-owe
Does Donald Trump have Dementia?
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)that is why he has his family around him to do the talking for him
He is a pathological liar.
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)Russia has everything to do with him
Renew Deal
(81,859 posts)Because he knows what the alternative is.
underpants
(182,806 posts)retrowire
(10,345 posts)Paladin
(28,261 posts)leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)FSogol
(45,485 posts)bdamomma
(63,849 posts)there is proof on this.
Where are those videos??? This man cannot be President.
Calls have to be made to Senators and Representatives. We all know he is lying.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA, NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING...........HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Can you take the oath of office in a strait jacket?
TNLib
(1,819 posts)Russia has tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE EVERYTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - DEALS, LOANS, EVERYTHING!
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)CanonRay
(14,101 posts)and we can at least impeach him.