2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTrump breaking news: I have ZERO investments in Russia
Trump on Twitter:
For the record, I have ZERO investments in Russia.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/758071952498159616
But that is not the question. The question is how much money have you borrowed or been given from Russia, and why are you obsessed with Putin?
Kber
(5,043 posts)How invested is Russia in you?
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,979 posts)TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)Nailed it.
That he felt the need to tweet about it makes me wonder how nervous the topic makes him.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)to the BS that Russia has initiated since WWII and you can realize, sometimes, we really are not going to make up and be friends.
VOX
(22,976 posts)How about several unending congressional committees taking up lengthy, no-stone-unturned investigations into this matter??
Cha
(297,890 posts)Response to Doodley (Original post)
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Kber
(5,043 posts)Doodley
(9,161 posts)Doodley
(9,161 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)abetterkid
(47 posts)Exactly!
AwakeAtLast
(14,134 posts)His balls are in a vice grip - and Putin is squeezing.
Bad Thoughts
(2,537 posts)baldguy
(36,649 posts)kstewart33
(6,551 posts)DanTex
(20,709 posts)Doodley
(9,161 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Healthy families is a huge emotional concept for people across the political spectrum.
MattP
(3,304 posts)EricMaundry
(1,619 posts)That is why they have been able to buy him.
Of course, he could prove that wrong if he released his tax returns.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Let's keep the pressure on.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Just admit it. You think it's hot.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)RonniePudding
(889 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,228 posts)I read $900 Million. I'm sure that won't affect his judgement at all.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)How much money have Russian mobsters loaned to you?
MelSC
(256 posts)/s
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,926 posts)considering no US banks will lend him a dime any more?
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)What we want to know is how much they are giving you! Nice semantics jerk, we will find out.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)But I just saw it on Facebook this morning and I was kind of surprised.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/07/vladimir_putin_has_a_plan_for_destroying_the_west_and_it_looks_a_lot_like.html
Donald, Jr. Said the opposite.
duncang
(1,907 posts)In 2008 his son said Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,
EricMaundry
(1,619 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Where are those tax returns eh?
Hekate
(90,931 posts)Doodley
(9,161 posts)Doodley
(9,161 posts)In fact, according to this, he has already invested the time and money to register trademarks in Russia:
The book, The Global Emerging Market: Strategic Management and Economics, by Vladimir Kvint, said that as far back as 2008, the Trump Organization had registered its trademarks in Russia in the areas of real estate development and construction. Trumps son, Donald Jr., said in an interview at the time that his father was looking at investing in Russia and China.
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/follow-trumps-money-to-moscow/
matt819
(10,749 posts)You don't invest shit. You sell your name and take other people's money.
The question that inquiring minds want to know is what investments Russians have in you and what are your commitments due to those investments. And while we're at it, I'd like to know more about Saudi investments in you and your businesses.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Blue Idaho
(5,061 posts)Russian financial institutions?
duncang
(1,907 posts)He is ceo, president, etc of a lot of companies. Would the assets be considered his? As ceo I'm pretty sure they wouldn't. But would be assets of the company. I have a feeling someone out there is trying to track down the money in all the front companies he uses. But with the shear amount it may be awhile to come out what he does have or at least controls in assets.
eShirl
(18,506 posts)apologies to Yakov Smirnoff
enid602
(8,660 posts)underpants
(182,970 posts)Trump has conveyed a different view, informed in part through his business ambitions. Since the 1980s, Trump and his family members have made numerous trips to Moscow in search of business opportunities, and they have relied on Russian investors to buy their properties around the world.
Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets, Trumps son, Donald Jr., told a real estate conference in 2008, according to an account posted on the website of eTurboNews, a trade publication. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.
rurallib
(62,471 posts)wisteria
(19,581 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,240 posts)Show your tax returns.
He's feeling hear about Russis now to tweet this.
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,507 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)Hard copies. You know, like...birth certificates?
randome
(34,845 posts)http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/that-ain-t-the-question
As I wrote in this piece from earlier today: The question isn't whether Trump has business in Russia but whether Russia has business in Trump.
Please answer the question.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it."
Tony Randall, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)[/center][/font][hr]
Cha
(297,890 posts)Mahalo, Doodley!
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)And a daughter named IVANka from a former wife. Could it be more obvious?
0rganism
(23,978 posts)i do seem to recall hearing some reporting on one Paul Manafort having significant investments in the pro-Russia regions of the Ukraine. but i suppose that's just a coincidence.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)Donald Trump Jr. in 2008:
Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets, Trumps son, Donald Jr., told a real estate conference in 2008, according to an account posted on the website of eTurboNews, a trade publication. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.
Trump was involved with Russian investors during the construction of Trump SoHo:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/us/politics/donald-trump-soho-settlement.html?_r=1
Besides the fraud accusations, a separate lawsuit claimed that Trump SoHo was developed with the undisclosed involvement of convicted felons and financing from questionable sources in Russia and Kazakhstan...
If the plans for it attracted controversy, so too would the company most responsible for its development: Bayrock Group.
Mr. Trump was foggy on how he first came to do business with Bayrock, a small development company whose offices were in Trump Tower in Midtown. In a deposition a few years ago, he said it might have been a Bayrock associate, Felix H. Sater, who first approached him in the early 2000s.
Mr. Sater, a Russian immigrant, had recently joined Bayrock at the behest of its founder, Tevfik Arif, a former Soviet-era commerce official originally from Kazakhstan. Bayrock, which was developing commercial properties in Brooklyn, proposed that Mr. Trump license his name to hotel projects in Florida, Arizona and New York, including Trump SoHo.
The other development partner for Trump SoHo was the Sapir Organization, whose founder, Tamir Sapir, was from the former Soviet republic of Georgia. In addition to receiving a licensing agreement, Mr. Trump would manage the completed condo-hotel, and he was also given a minor equity interest in it.
Emails and testimony in several lawsuits show that Mr. Sater and Mr. Arif worked closely with Mr. Trump and others in the Trump Organization. Mr. Trump was particularly taken with Mr. Arifs overseas connections. In a deposition, Mr. Trump said that the two had discussed numerous deals all over the world and that Mr. Arif had brought potential Russian investors to Mr. Trumps office to meet him.