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UNTIL we see his tax returns, we have no idea why he is sucking up and kissing PUTIN'S ass. If there is no there there, RELEASE THE FUCKING TAX RETURNS. It was HIS KID that put the Russian financing 'fact' on the table. We didn't make it up. If Eric is the dumb one and just talking out his ass, then RELEASE THE FUCKING TAX RETURNS. But let's also not forget that Eric was still fingerpainting when Trump was tied to Russian money in the early 90s.
“We don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.”
“So when I got in the cart with Eric,” Dodson says, “as we were setting off, I said, ‘Eric, who’s funding? I know no banks—because of the recession, the Great Recession—have touched a golf course. You know, no one’s funding any kind of golf construction. It’s dead in the water the last four or five years.’ And this is what he said. He said, ‘Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.’ I said, ‘Really?’ And he said, ‘Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that really, really love golf, and they’re really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time.’ Now that was three years ago, so it was pretty interesting.”
Eric Trump on Twitter that the story is “completely fabricated and just another example of why there is such a deep distrust of the media in our country.”
If what Dodson says is true, it wouldn’t be the first time that the Trumps have been connected to Russian money. A number of reports have indicated the Trump Organization received substantial financing from Russia when the business was struggling in the mid 1990s and again during the Great Recession, since major U.S. banks had refused to loan money to him. Most recently, Reuters reported that a group of 63 Russia billionaires have invested nearly $100 million in several Trump properties in Florida. Donald Trump Jr. himself famously said in 2008 that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”
Donald Trump has maintained that neither he nor his businesses have any ties to Russia whatsoever:
Donald J. Trump✔@realDonaldTrump
Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!
It is not clear from the details of Dodson’s conversation with WBUR whether his conversation with Eric took place before or after March 2014, when the U.S. imposed economic sanctions on Russia for its annexation of Crimea. The Trump campaign subsequently made lifting those sanctions and seeking improved relations a key component of its proposed foreign policy, and reportedly fought to change the G.O.P. platform in 2016 to soften its language on supporting Ukraine.
“It’s a recollection from some guy three years ago through a third person,” Eric told the New York Post shortly after the story broke. He denied that the Russians had any involvement in the North Carolina property, saying that the Trumps “own our courses free and clear.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/eric-trump-russia-investment-golf-course
