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(MEGA-THREAD) TRUMP has been in a business arrangement with PUTIN since 2013; publicly available information PROVES it. Please read & share. 
(1) On the day of the 2013 Miss Universe pageant, Donald Trump and Aras Agalarov announced (via RT) plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
(2) Agalarov is Putin's personal real estate developer. He has told RIA Novosti that he builds on Putin's orders and without making tenders.
(3) Agalarov can't build in Moscow without Putin's permission—which can be retracted at will. But his deal with Trump got Putin's blessing.
(4) We know this because Don told investors in '08 that you can't build in Moscow without permits—and one needs Kremlin friends to get them.
(5) Lack of proper permits—synonymous with a lack of Kremlin friends—doomed Trump Tower Moscow in both '87 and '96. theatlantic.com/international/…
(6) When Trump invited Putin to Miss Universe '13, Putin didn't go—sending his property chief (permits man) instead. motherjones.com/politics/2016/…
(7) Putin's real estate developer and permits man got a deal done—in a day—Trump hadn't been able to do in 25 years. rt.com/business/trump…
(8) But a Russian real estate developer and a Kremlin permits man are only 2/3rds of the Holy Trinity needed to get a tower built in Moscow.
(9) That's why Putin also sent his banker—head of Sberbank—to meet with Trump the day of the Miss Universe pageant. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
(10) With Putin's real estate developer, permits man and banker at a table with Trump in November 2013, a deal got completed near-instantly.
(11) About a week later, Sberbank made the announcement that it was funding the Trump-Agalarov—Trump-Putin—project. themoscowtimes.com/articles/sberb…
(12) It's preposterous—and deeply misunderstands the Moscow real estate market—to call this deal a "Trump-Agalarov," not "Trump-Putin" deal.
(13) Putin decided—just 6 months after learning Trump was likely to run for POTUS—to give him his real estate man, permits man, and banker.
(13) Make no mistake about it: the *latest* that Putin knew Trump was looking at a presidential run was May of 2013. pagesix.com/2013/05/27/tru…
(14) By late May, Trump's attorney Cohen was saying this: "We did not spend $1 million on this research for it just to sit on my bookshelf."
(15) The message from the famously frugal Trump—delivered by his then-closest advisor Cohen—was clear: Trump was running for real this time.
(16) That's why it took Putin just two weeks to dispatch his real estate man— Agalarov—to the Miss America pageant. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Amer…
(17) On June 12, 2013, Trump hung out with Aras in Vegas. By June 18, he announced his pageant was headed to Moscow. politico.com/story/2016/05/…
(18) Seventeen nations were then vying for the 2013 Miss Universe pageant. Aras—and Putin—leapt over all of them in less than a week's time.
(19) Putin had cleared Aras to deal with Trump in June '13—otherwise the deal couldn't have been announced the day Trump arrived in Moscow.
(20) Miss Universe went to Russia—Putin—in 2013 *because* Putin dangled Donald Trump's 25-year dream, Trump Tower Moscow, in front of Trump.
(21) And Putin then *delivered* on that implicit promise by sending his real estate developer, permits man and banker to Miss Universe 2013.
(22) But as Don Jr. said in 2008, the entire project could be *withdrawn* on Putin's say-so—meaning Trump had to give Putin value in return.
(23) But once the U.S. sanctioned Sberbank in mid-September of 2014, it's not clear that that Putin-set financing was available any longer.
(24) So to get the tower he'd desired for *25 years*, Trump had to (a) keep Putin happy, (b) get sanctions lifted, (c) hand the deal to Don.
(25) It's clear Trump has aimed to please Putin since 2013; his plan to unilaterally drop sanctions on Russia in January is also well known.
(26) But American media has been falsely reporting, lately, that the Trump-Agalarov-Putin deal "fell apart" in 2014—with no evidence at all.
(27) NYT, The Atlantic and others claim sanctions—or Russia's bad '14 economy—
killed the deal. They never offer proof. No links, no quotes.
killed the deal. They never offer proof. No links, no quotes.
(28) The Atlantic claimed, today, that an unrelated scandal in Kyrgyzstan involving Aras—not Trump—killed the deal. theatlantic.com/international/…
(29) The problem is this: *none of the principals* involved in the Trump-Agalarov-Putin deal seem to agree with allegations it died in 2013.
(30) Aras claims the deal only died after Trump's inauguration *and*—moreover—confirmation Trump couldn't do deals. russianconstruction.com/news-1/26505-r…
(31) And we have lots of extraneous proof that Aras is *telling the truth*—and again, *no* proof the NYT and The Atlantic are right on this.
(32) First, let's make sure you've seen what Aras said to Russian media in February 2017 about his deal with Trump having just died—and why: 
(33) And this July, Aras' lawyer conceded to RIA Novosti that Trump and Agalarov met to *talk business* a "number of times" from '13 to '17: 
(34) This contention is *confirmed* by the fact that we know Trump—and Don—have stayed in *close contact* with Aras and his son since 2013.
(35) And Emin Agalarov—who's the one who first introduced Trump to his father—is another principal who says the deal did *not* die in 2013: 
(36) Asked by Forbes if the 2013 Trump-Agalarov-Putin deal would be picked up with Don now that Trump "couldn't do deals," Emin said "Yeah."
(37) This is confirmed by public reports that say Emin and Don speak on the phone "regularly" and Emin sees Trump Sr. several times a year.
(38) It's *further* confirmed by the *ease* with which Aras and Emin set up that infamous Trump Tower Meeting with Don Jr. on June 9, 2016.
(39) Don Jr.'s emails about that meeting confirm that—*years* after the 2013 allegedly "died"—he was in regular contact with the Agalarovs.
(40) The Trump-Agalarov business relationship—connected to Putin and *very* alive in 2016—also confirms Trump would've known of the meeting.
(41) And Emin clearly confirmed to Forbes that the Trump-Agalarov-Putin deal was alive *following* Trump announcing for POTUS in June 2015: 
(42) Note the language: "Considering Mr. Trump ran for president [starting in June 2015], we just thought that building a Trump Tower..."
(43) In what world does Emin Agalarov's language suggest that—by June '15—the Trump-Agalarov-Putin deal had been dead for many, many months?
(44) But look at the rest of that quote: before his father shut him down, Emin accidentally revealed a confidentiality agreement AND an LoI.
(45) So Trump and Aras (a) wanted the mere fact of a deal kept secret, (b) signed a Letter of Intent, (c) tried to keep Emin from saying so.
(46) The NYT/Atlantic not only have *no evidence* the deal died—beyond speculation—they have no evidence the Letter of Intent was rescinded.
(47) And Emin telling Forbes the deal can be picked up with Don now that his father is in the White House suggests the LoI WASN'T rescinded.
(48) And since—as we know—Trump *continues* to draw income from the Trump Org in the same way he always has, he *gains big* in such a deal.
(49) Is there evidence Trump is a) trying to keep Putin happy, b) trying to end sanctions, so his deal can one day go forward with Don? Yes.
(50) The NYT said in July it didn't know if Trump and Agalarov are in a business relationship—but failed to offer all the evidence they ARE. 
(51) But unless the '13 Letter of Intent has been rescinded—and all evidence points the other way—Trump is in business with Aras. And Putin.
(52) Fact: the still-extant 2013 deal *requires* Putin's real estate developer, permits man, banker, sanctions policy, and—above all—say-so.
(53) Trump and Agalarov may have made a land deal, but that land deal is in all respects predicated upon Trump's deal with Putin for *more*.
(54) Sater—a Russian mobster—and Mike Cohen, who says he'd never do *anything* to hurt Trump, can claim the '13 deal died. There's no proof.
(55) Sanctions can *delay* a real estate deal, but if you're the president, control sanctions policy and plan to end sanctions—new ballgame.
(56) Instead of wildly speculating that, surely, the '13 deal MUST have died, the media should get proof the Letter of Intent was rescinded.
(57) It should harangue Emin until it has a *credible* explanation for why the Agalarovs are publicly discussing executing the LoI with Don.
(58) It should explain why, if sanctions *delayed* the LoI, that somehow means they *killed* the LoI: which *isn't* how business deals work.
(59) It should ask what "business" Trump/Aras discussed "a number of times" from '13 to '17—and why Emin says the deal was on post-June '15.
(60) It should inquire as to why Putin sent as his replacement to the 2013 Miss Universe pageant—of all people!—the Kremlin's *permits man*.
(61) It should investigate whether the sanctions actually *do* prevent Don from receiving financing—a loan—from Sberbank, as they may *not*.
(62) And it should consider that, even if the deal was delayed as of fall 2014, within a matter of months Sater was back working the phones.
(63) Somehow Trump was still lying about knowing Sater—and Sater still believing Trump was active in Russia—in 2015. thenation.com/article/who-is…
(64) Sater may have been working on financing for the Agalarov deal—as there's no reason sanctions would cost Trump his developer/permits.
(65) That's why U.S. media reports not only lack evidence on the '13 deal but make no sense: why would Trump lose his developer and permits?
(66) As of September 2014, all Trump needed to get his tower back was to end sanctions—and it's clear he's done all he can to achieve that.
(67) If Sater—who wasn't at all involved in the Trump-Agalarov-Putin deal in 2013—was looking for Russia deals for Trump in 2015, who cares?
(68) In other words, what does Sater working the phones in Russia in 2015 have to do with whether the Trump-Agalarov-Putin deal was active?
(69) And how does Cohen sending a halfhearted email to a general Kremlin email account in '15 prove he didn't think the '13 deal was active?
(70) CONCLUSION: All signs point to Trump, Agalarov and Putin being in a confidential LoI agreement over Trump Tower Moscow RIGHT NOW. {end}
(PS) I understand the title of this thread seems beyond belief. But read the reports—all public, major-media reports—and tell me I'm wrong.
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