Trump just tweeted: I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!

[highplainsdem]

Which is completely counter to what's known.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/819159806489591809

Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!

Editing to add a link to a DU thread I posted the other day about some of Trump's business dealing with Russia, and how Russians bailed him out of bankruptcy. Note, if you read the entire piece I'd found at Daily Kos, that this is based on three articles in the Financial Times:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028451762

[Cha]

1. #protestingtoomuch

#sad #very unfair!#but Russia said..

[Aviation Pro]

2. No ability

To communicate above the level of a three-year old, apparently.

[highplainsdem]

3. Time, Aug 2016: Donald Trump's Many, Many, Many, Many Ties to Russia

http://time.com/4433880/donald-trump-ties-to-russia/

[onetexan]

32. They need to have a hearing and rub these findings in his face!!

It is maddening we have a psychotic liar about to take the highest office in the land yet our congress is unwilling to do anything to get him impeached.

[MFM008]

55. Yes this perverted traitor

Is on the brink of changing our lives for the worse.
This piss soaked maggot gets to ruin the country and the planet??

[Botany]

4. Trump is already acting like he is being blackmailed by Russia

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028458165

[FailureToCommunicate]

44. Well at least we're not talking about Trump's tax returns any more.

[HopeAgain]

5. "No nothing" means "something"

a double negative is a positive...

[cornball 24]

52. My first thought as well-double negative!

[milestogo]

6. lie, lie, lie

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Nothing! Not even a pot to piss in!

[Maeve]

9. Now, now...he doesn't need a pot. He hires others to piss for him!

[highplainsdem]

8. ABC News, Sept 2016: From Russia With Trump: A Political Conflict Zone

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/russia-trump-political-conflict-zone/story?id=42263092

Fishing for Russian Billionaires

There is ample evidence in Russian media from that period in the 2000s that brokers mounted a significant effort to attract buyers to Trump properties in Florida, Toronto and New York. And Trump and his children participated in those campaigns.

During the marketing of the Trump SoHo project, in which Trump licensed his name to a group that included Russian investors, the Trump family met with a group of Russian journalists at their New York offices to help boost interest in the project, according to Russian media reports. During the meeting, Trump was quoted telling the gathering of Russian journalists: “I really like Vladimir Putin. I respect him. He does his work well. Much better than our Bush.”

Eric Trump and Donald Jr. were also present, and were quoted praising the importance of Russian condo buyers, many of whom have purchased units in Trump buildings in seven-figure, cash-only deals.

"As the experience of the past few years shows, the best property buyers now are Russian,” Eric Trump is quoted as saying. “They're different in that they can go around without a mortgage loan from American banks, that require income checks and they can buy apartments with cash.”

Garten said the Trump Organization did not fly Russian journalists to New York to tout the SoHo project, or any other. “If such a trip took place it would have likely been arranged by the developer or the broker for the project - not us,” he said.

[leftynyc]

10. That was an incredibly stupid tweet

to put out the very day the press is getting their first crack at him at the press conference.

[Ilsa]

11. He needs to prove. A denial isn't proof. Release your financials, trump! NT

[Docreed2003]

12. Of course he'd say that...lolthis guy is the worst at Jedi mind tricks

That being said, anyone else cringe every time he uses the word "deal/s"? It seems like such a juvenile term for a guy who's supposedly a "successful" businessman and he's been using the "deal" for decades...even his autobiography.

[Dave Starsky]

18. Trump couldn't "deal" his way out of a traffic ticket.

If I saw that clown approaching me on a used car lot, I'd pick up my frightened children and run the other way.

[Docreed2003]

19. Truth...the guy is the epitome of shady used car salesman!

[33taw]

45. I hope we can use a 'lemon law' to remedy.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

58. I cringe any time he says anything.

Every word out of his mouth is tainted by his total lack of ethics and disregard for the truth.

[LaydeeBug]

13. PROVE it motherfucker! Release the 1040's.

[oasis]

23. The press conference media should suggest he release his taxes as a means

of exonerating him from the whole Russia "thing".

[LaydeeBug]

27. please. They'll drink his piss for access. I bet Joe and Mika already have. nt

[NewJeffCT]

30. Urine luck

I heard the press conference will be livestreamed.

[womanofthehills]

39. Here comes Kellyanne - very appropriately dressed!

[randome]

40. Oh, geeze, urine-corrigable.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Birds are territorial creatures.
The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"[/center][/font][hr]

[Dave Starsky]

14. Show us your tax returns, you fucking gorilla.

That would end it immediately, wouldn't it? You could PROVE to your detractors how wrong they are and wreak instant, sweet revenge. But you won't do it, will you?

Isn't that a pisser?

[panader0]

15. Didn't his son say that most of their money

was tied up in Russia? Anyone have that quote?

[BainsBane]

16. The FBI needs to

ask him about these things. It's a federal crime to lie to the FBI. Trump's habitual lying won't cut it.

[Dave Starsky]

21. The FBI helped get us into this mess.

They are of no help to us.

[BainsBane]

22. I'm afraid you're right

[Vinca]

17. 2 words: prove it.

Release the tax returns.

[salin]

20. Bingo.

[bdamomma]

49. this is why he doesn't want to

release his tax returns.

calls to be made to your senators please.

[barbtries]

24. oh my, he's told another lie

i think i might faint.

[berksdem]

25. We all know this deplorable...

Is corrupt but without hard evidence this is just another story that will lead to nowhere. Interested to see where this goes but right now we are not talking cold hard facts.

[Zambero]

26. Trump outdoes Dan Quayle

At least the "potatoe" flap could be written off as an honest blunder. On the other hand, a literal interpretation of Trump's use of the double negative "no nothing" would imply that something is indeed pissy in Denmark.

[Hugin]

28. Okay, we're back to, "Who're you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?"

Charming.

[Dopers_Greed]

29. He's cracking

If only he got this much scrutiny during the election

[onetexan]

31. Then release your tax returns to back up your words Orange Man

[procon]

33. "We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.

In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. — the GOP nominee’s son and the VP for Development for The Trump Organization — told attendees at a real estate conference in New York City 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.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/302216-how-much-money-does-the-trump-organization-owe


Does Donald Trump have Dementia?

[bdamomma]

50. he probably does

that is why he has his family around him to do the talking for him

He is a pathological liar.

[liberal N proud]

34. Double negatives in his tweet

[GusBob]

35. He is not lying folks.

Russia has everything to do with him

[Renew Deal]

36. The first sentence is technically true. He is willingly compliant

Because he knows what the alternative is.

[underpants]

38. Simmer down trumP - don't wet the bed

[retrowire]

41. Tax returns plzkthx nt

[Paladin]

42. Prove it, motherfucker. (nt)

[leftyladyfrommo]

43. Except that's not true. nt

[George II]

46. Show us your tax returns, then maybe we'll believe you.

[FSogol]

47. Trumpy: Number 1, there were no leaks!

[bdamomma]

48. these tweets are NOT going to save his ass

there is proof on this.

Where are those videos??? This man cannot be President.

Calls have to be made to Senators and Representatives. We all know he is lying.

[LongTomH]

51. How long before Trump completely loses it?!?!?!?

I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA, NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING...........HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Can you take the oath of office in a strait jacket?

[TNLib]

53. I fixed his quote

Russia has tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE EVERYTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - DEALS, LOANS, EVERYTHING!

[flamingdem]

54. His son stated otherwise n/t

[CanonRay]

56. Now lets get that statement under oath

and we can at least impeach him.

[sarcasmo]

57. House of Lies