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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"I don't make money from Russia" - "I don't do business with Russia" - from NYT (edited)
...By the way, I would say, I dont I dont I mean, its possible theres a condo or something, so, you know, I sell a lot of condo units, and somebody from Russia buys a condo, who knows? I dont make money from Russia...I dont have buildings in Russia. They said I own buildings in Russia. I dont. They said I made money from Russia. I dont. Its not my thing. I dont, I dont do that....
...And actually, when I do my filings, peoples say, Man. People have no idea how successful this is. Its a great company...
....But I have no income from Russia. I dont do business with Russia. The gentleman that you mentioned, with his son, two nice people. But basically, they brought the Miss Universe pageant to Russia to open up, you know, one of their jobs. Perhaps the convention center where it was held. It was a nice evening, and I left. I left, you know, I left Moscow. It wasnt Moscow, it was outside of Moscow...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-interview-transcript.html
Nooooooo comment
(well, okay, I really enjoyed the last three sentences. More fun if you read them aloud.)
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)doc03
(35,337 posts)lying his ass off.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Although I think Jr. has said they get a lot of money from "the Russians." Don't think he said "Russia," which implies it's the govt directly. Jr. made this statement a few yrs ago. I'll look for the link. That's not the only time, either.
But in Russia, there is no difference. The oligarchs make money through the largess of Putin. Putin controls everything.
I thought it was known that Russia made loans to Trump. Other countries did, too. But I thought it was known that Russia did. Maybe I'm wrong about that.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)As we were setting off, I said, Eric, whos funding? I know no banks because of the recession, the Great Recession have touched a golf course. You know, no ones funding any kind of golf construction. Its dead in the water the last four or five years. And this is what he said. He said, Well, we dont rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia. I said, Really? And he said, Oh, yeah. Weve got some guys that really, really love golf, and theyre really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time. Now that was three years ago, so it was pretty interesting.
This wouldnt have been the first time one of the Trump offspring bragged about Russian funding. At a real estate conference in 2008, Donald Trump Jr. said that the Russian money was pouring in to the Trump business.
And in terms of high-end product influx into the US, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets; say in Dubai, and certainly with our project in SoHo and anywhere in New York. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia, he said.
https://thinkprogress.org/eric-trump-reportedly-bragged-about-russian-funding-streams-e6f3e525f10e
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)He'd sleep better at night..
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Hopefully soon
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)Monkey sh*t. That is all.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)puss-bag.
leftstreet
(36,108 posts)So will he tweet tomorrow that his own words are 'fake news?'
Gman
(24,780 posts)He couldn't sell one condo unless the construction was financed. And no one in the US would loan him money.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)"parsing his words", you say? Copy dat!
Hilarious!
Squinch
(50,949 posts)gives it away either by a Freudian slip or a projection of his actions onto someone else.
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)Sounds like something is beginning to seep into that vacuous space inside his skull.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,042 posts)Yeah, he doesn't make money there. It lost its behind and Russia floated him the money to keep things afloat. He doesn't make money there. He pays money to Russia.