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Kilmeade tried several times to interrupt Trump's ranting to ask whether he had Russian cosigners on any of his loans, and Trump wouldn't answer. He seemed offended by the idea that he'd ever need loans in the first place, and instead kept talking about how he loved cash deals.
The @Lawrence report was a non-story that should never have been aired.
But the question he tried to answer is still a huge story that's waiting to be reported on. No bank would've made the kinds of loans that Deutsche Bank made to Trump under the terms that have been disclosed.
But the question he tried to answer is still a huge story that's waiting to be reported on. No bank would've made the kinds of loans that Deutsche Bank made to Trump under the terms that have been disclosed.
There is a reason why Deutsche Bank, and Deutsche Bank alone, felt it had sufficient assurances to make the kind of loans to Trump that otherwise defy all financial explanation. We just don't know what that reason was yet.
The "Russians were cosigning Trump's loans" theory has been around for years now, because the existence of a cosigner (Russian or otherwise) would be a tidy explanation for why Deutsche Bank felt comfortable making these loans. But if it were that simple, we'd likely know by now.
Right now, the official explanation is that Deutsche Bank had so much faith in Trump's genius as a deal maker that they were willing to ignore his multiple prior nine-figure defaults, and extend Trump new credit that was backed by insufficient collateral.
That ain't it either.
That ain't it either.
