Maybe this is why Trump is courting Russia
Donald Trump has built properties in Brazil, Panama, Ireland, Scotland, Turkey, South Korea and several other foreign countries. But never in Russia.
He has tried, though. Trump set his sights on Russia as early as 1996, when he tried to build a condominium complex in Moscow. In 2007, he said, “We’ll be in Moscow at some point.” In 2013, he said was hoping to build a Trump Tower in the Russian capital. All of those projects fell through. But after Trump held his Miss Universe pageant in Moscow in November 2013, he raved about the host city, tweeting, “Moscow is a very interesting and amazing place.”
Trump is still thinking a lot about Russia — and upsetting a lot of foreign policy traditionalists in the process. He recently said Russian cyberspies should try to find the 30,000 emails Hillary Clinton deleted from the private server she used when she was Secretary of State. That’s essentially urging a foreign spy agency to conduct surveillance on a US presidential candidate.
Trump added that, if elected, he might recognize Crimea as Russian territory and revoke sanctions placed on the country when Russia forcibly annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. This comes after Trump has repeatedly praised Russia’s strongman president, Vladimir Putin, calling him a “strong leader” and a “powerful leader” late last year.
Trump says he has nothing up his sleeve, but it’s possible he’s currying favor with the Kremlin to help grease future real-estate deals, should he fail to get elected president this fall. And if he does get elected, his firm, the Trump Organization, will still be run by his *******, and still be in a position to profit from any deals it can ink in the former USSR. Russia is one of the trickiest markets for western firms, given the oligarchs who run the economy and the myriad unstated rules of a kleptocracy.
Trump does have some useful connections in Russia. He’s done business with Aras and Emin Agalarov, *******-******* billionaire developers said to be close to Putin. Trump himself has never met Putin, though he did express wishful thinking that the former KGB colonel would show up at the 2013 Miss Universe pageant:
Maybe this is why Trump is courting Russia
Rick Newman 4 hours ago .
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Donald Trump has built properties in Brazil, Panama, Ireland, Scotland, Turkey, South Korea and several other foreign countries. But never in Russia.
He has tried, though. Trump set his sights on Russia as early as 1996, when he tried to build a condominium complex in Moscow. In 2007, he said, “We’ll be in Moscow at some point.” In 2013, he said was hoping to build a Trump Tower in the Russian capital. All of those projects fell through. But after Trump held his Miss Universe pageant in Moscow in November 2013, he raved about the host city, tweeting, “Moscow is a very interesting and amazing place.”
Trump is still thinking a lot about Russia — and upsetting a lot of foreign policy traditionalists in the process. He recently said Russian cyberspies should try to find the 30,000 emails Hillary Clinton deleted from the private server she used when she was Secretary of State. That’s essentially urging a foreign spy agency to conduct surveillance on a US presidential candidate.
Trump added that, if elected, he might recognize Crimea as Russian territory and revoke sanctions placed on the country when Russia forcibly annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. This comes after Trump has repeatedly praised Russia’s strongman president, Vladimir Putin, calling him a “strong leader” and a “powerful leader” late last year.
Trump says he has nothing up his sleeve, but it’s possible he’s currying favor with the Kremlin to help grease future real-estate deals, should he fail to get elected president this fall. And if he does get elected, his firm, the Trump Organization, will still be run by his *******, and still be in a position to profit from any deals it can ink in the former USSR. Russia is one of the trickiest markets for western firms, given the oligarchs who run the economy and the myriad unstated rules of a kleptocracy.
Trump does have some useful connections in Russia. He’s done business with Aras and Emin Agalarov, *******-******* billionaire developers said to be close to Putin. Trump himself has never met Putin, though he did express wishful thinking that the former KGB colonel would show up at the 2013 Miss Universe pageant:
Putin, for his part, has called Trump “a colorful person, talented, without any doubt.” And Russian state media — controlled by Putin — has treated Trump favorably. Maybe it’s time for the two contrarians to get together