“Probably” because the mafia boss signs no contracts and his lieutenants leave few clues and don’t talk. Nonetheless, Donald John Trump and Russian Real Estate Money appear to have a sensible relationship that starts with borrowing a lot of money from American banks and failing to return it. Trump’s business failures have been legend, and I have left a compilation of that lot of stories here: #DJT The Sucess! (At Failing): Two Tweets,” BackChannels, September 27, 2022. For the fortuitous arrival of Russian real estate revenue: “Trump’s America in Retrospect: Russian Real Estate Entanglements,” BackChannels, October 9, 2021. For emphasis and not on this blog, one may read this in Foreign Policy by Michael Hirsh: “How Russian Money Helped Save Trump’s Business,” December 21, 2018.

The order of events in the Trump business saga and the near thematic coverage of Trump-related dark money and Russian money support the case for “#CollusionNoDelusion.

When it comes to Trump properties in America, Donald Trump has never had an issue with Russian immigrants. Wealthy ones, of course. How did he find them? How did they find him? We might suppose that part of the business “proprietary” in the extreme.

Also Related Online

Harding, Luke. “‘A very different world’–inside the Czech spying operation on Trump.” The Guardian, October 29, 2018.

Harding, Luke. ”The Hidden History of Trump’s First Trip to Moscow.” Politico, November 19, 2017.

Sipher, John. ”Piling up incriminating information about Trump’s Russian connections.” The Washington Post, January 29, 2021.

Smith, David. ”‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy.” The Guardian, January 29, 2021.

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