Seth Abramson on Trump's Putin Connection
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(THREAD) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: In 2008, Trump believed himself to be cutting an eight-figure real estate deal with Vladimir Putin himself—a transaction that netted him tens of millions. This news appears to unlock the Trump-Russia collusion mystery. I hope you'll read on and RT.
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1/ In 2008, Trump sold a property he had *no buyers for*—after years of looking—for tens of millions in profit. The sale was to a Russian oligarch close to Putin who promptly razed every "improvement" to the land Trump had ever made, calling into question the purpose of the sale.
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2/ A decade later, the Putin-allied Russian oligarch—a shrewd businessman, Dmitry Rybolovlev—was still trying to unload Trump's property in a way that let him break even. The sale was one of the single biggest scores of Trump's life—and one of America's biggest real estate deals.
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3/ So much has been written about the 2008 Trump-Rybolovlev real estate deal that really you can just Google it and scores of lengthy examinations of it—all focused on how suspicious it was—will come up. Here's one example, via the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE:
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4/ Until now, intrigued Trump-Russia biographers like me nevertheless had to move on from the incident, as without access to Trump's financial records the appearance of corruption is all we had—even if Rybolovlev showed up in Trump's life in two later, equally suspicious events.
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