Trump's business practices in the early 2000s—when his daddy's piggy bank ran out, and when he began dealing in massive sums of cash—make little sense without another key puzzle piece: That's when he turned to shady Russian financing.
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For example, that's when he met Felix Sater, who acted as a conduit for Russian money into Trump SoHo and tried multiple times to swing deals for Trump in Russia. themoscowproject.org/players/felixs…
It's also about when Michael Cohen—who's got plenty of Russia connections of his own, and who's been friends with Sater for decades—joined the Trump Organization. themoscowproject.org/explainers/eve…
And it's when the Trump Organization turned to licensing deals on properties developed with lots and lots of Eastern European money for their bread and butter. themoscowproject.org/explainers/a-t…
But don't take our word for it; just ask Donald Trump Jr., who traveled to Russia several times in the mid-2000s and told a conference of investors in 2008 that "Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets."
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Or Eric Trump, who, while advertising for Trump SoHo, spoke glowingly about how "the best property buyers now are Russian" because they could deal in all cash without going through American banks. abcnews.go.com/Politics/russi…
