Trump breaking news: I have ZERO investments in Russia

[Doodley]

Trump on Twitter:

For the record, I have ZERO investments in Russia.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/758071952498159616



But that is not the question. The question is how much money have you borrowed or been given from Russia, and why are you obsessed with Putin?

[Kber]

1. The question is

How invested is Russia in you?

[Cali_Democrat]

7. Bingo. nt

[LenaBaby61]

19. THIS ^^^^^

[TheDebbieDee]

59. I'm sure he said, "I have no investments in Russia. BELIEVE ME!"

[RonniePudding]

34. +1

Nailed it.

That he felt the need to tweet about it makes me wonder how nervous the topic makes him.

[uponit7771]

45. +1

[MichiganVote]

52. Yup. All these years of ignoring the loss of our greatest treasure, our young

to the BS that Russia has initiated since WWII and you can realize, sometimes, we really are not going to make up and be friends.

[VOX]

55. ^^ Absolutely THIS ^^^

How about several unending congressional committees taking up lengthy, no-stone-unturned investigations into this matter??

[Cha]

58. Answer: Big time.

[Chakab]

60. Exactly.

[Kber]

3. Lol. Great minds!

[Snotcicles]

4. LOL.nt

[Doodley]

12. I saw that! You two must be psychic!

[Doodley]

5. It is interesting what Trump DOESN'T want to write in his Tweets!

[geek tragedy]

6. In Russia, Trump not invest in government; government invest in Trump. nt

[abetterkid]

26. LMAOOOO

Exactly!

[AwakeAtLast]

41. That's a nice way to say

His balls are in a vice grip - and Putin is squeezing.

[Bad Thoughts]

8. Show us your taxes. eom

[baldguy]

9. You don't invest in Russia. Russia invests in you!

[kstewart33]

10. Given his addiction to lying, why would anyone believe him?

[DanTex]

11. No problem, just release your taxes and we can verify all that.

[Doodley]

18. We need the crowds at Democrat rallies to chant "Release your taxes!"

[Hortensis]

25. I'd rather chant "Strong wages, strong families."

Healthy families is a huge emotional concept for people across the political spectrum.

[MattP]

13. Don't tell us, show us!

[63splitwindow]

47. ...

[EricMaundry]

14. Yes. Trump is too broke to have investments in Russia

That is why they have been able to buy him.

Of course, he could prove that wrong if he released his tax returns.

[Cali_Democrat]

15. The Trump/Russia connection story has legs

Let's keep the pressure on.

[Warren DeMontague]

16. Come on, Don. You want to ride the bear.

Just admit it. You think it's hot.

[Duckhunter935]

17. Prove it by releasing some years of tax records

[RonniePudding]

35. I'm most interested in the period after credit from US banks became unavailable to him.

[TexasBushwhacker]

53. He owes a lot to the Saudis top

I read $900 Million. I'm sure that won't affect his judgement at all.

[kestrel91316]

20. Answer the question asked, Comrade Trump:

How much money have Russian mobsters loaned to you?

[MelSC]

21. Trump never lies

/s

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. How much of his debt is held in Russia,

considering no US banks will lend him a dime any more?

[tallahasseedem]

23. Well, we knew that...you're effectively broke.

What we want to know is how much they are giving you! Nice semantics jerk, we will find out.

[Blanks]

24. This has probably been shared here...

But I just saw it on Facebook this morning and I was kind of surprised.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/07/vladimir_putin_has_a_plan_for_destroying_the_west_and_it_looks_a_lot_like.html

[RandySF]

27. Lie

Donald, Jr. Said the opposite.

[duncang]

28. I wonder if he dumped it to the kids and wife.

In 2008 his son said “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,”

[EricMaundry]

29. The Art of the Lie

[workinclasszero]

30. Sure Trump

Where are those tax returns eh?

[Hekate]

31. Show us your emails, bud. Show us the RNC emails. Tell Wikileaks you're all about transparency.

[Doodley]

32. Very good point. The RNC emails and Trump taxes should be demanded!

[Doodley]

33. Despite, what he Tweets, Trump has been TRYING to invest in Russia for a long time.

In fact, according to this, he has already invested the time and money to register trademarks in Russia:

The book, The Global Emerging Market: Strategic Management and Economics, by Vladimir Kvint, said that as far back as 2008, the Trump Organization had registered its trademarks in Russia in the areas of real estate development and construction. Trump’s son, Donald Jr., said in an interview at the time that his father was looking at investing in Russia and China.

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/follow-trumps-money-to-moscow/

[matt819]

36. That's an answer to a question that hasn't been asked

You don't invest shit. You sell your name and take other people's money.

The question that inquiring minds want to know is what investments Russians have in you and what are your commitments due to those investments. And while we're at it, I'd like to know more about Saudi investments in you and your businesses.

[Blue_Tires]

37. Meanwhile, Assange and Greenwald are still playing dumb about their Kremlin links

[NCTraveler]

38. He is so honest. His need to do this makes me think it's there for the finding. Nt

[Blue Idaho]

39. Ok but how much money do you owe

Russian financial institutions?

[duncang]

40. Also consider llc.s etc

He is ceo, president, etc of a lot of companies. Would the assets be considered his? As ceo I'm pretty sure they wouldn't. But would be assets of the company. I have a feeling someone out there is trying to track down the money in all the front companies he uses. But with the shear amount it may be awhile to come out what he does have or at least controls in assets.

[eShirl]

42. But Donald, in TrumpAmerica, Russia invests in YOU.

apologies to Yakov Smirnoff

[enid602]

43. Washington Post article

Good read on the subject: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-trumps-financial-ties-to-russia-and-his-unusual-flattery-of-vladimir-putin/2016/06/17/dbdcaac8-31a6-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html

[underpants]

50. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”

Trump has conveyed a different view, informed in part through his business ambitions. Since the 1980s, Trump and his family members have made numerous trips to Moscow in search of business opportunities, and they have relied on Russian investors to buy their properties around the world.

“Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” Trump’s son, Donald Jr., told a real estate conference in 2008, according to an account posted on the website of eTurboNews, a trade publication. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”

[rurallib]

44. When everything he says is a lie, why should this be any different?

[wisteria]

46. Release your tax returns Trump.

[Johnny2X2X]

48. Prove it!

Show your tax returns.

He's feeling hear about Russis now to tweet this.

[63splitwindow]

49. A NERVE HAS BEEN STRUCK!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

51. So how much of your ass does Russia own? nt

[VOX]

54. Until I see proof, I say bullshit. Show us documentation.

Hard copies. You know, like...birth certificates?

[randome]

56. The Art Of The Non-Answer -by (presumably) Meredith McIver

That. Ain't. The. Question.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/that-ain-t-the-question

As I wrote in this piece from earlier today: The question isn't whether Trump has business in Russia but whether Russia has business in Trump.

Please answer the question.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it."
Tony Randall, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)[/center][/font][hr]

[Cha]

57. Good, dumkoff is on the defensive!

Mahalo, Doodley!

[63splitwindow]

61. Slovenia WAS a communist country and we know who has the real brains in the Don the Con "marriage"..

And a daughter named IVANka from a former wife. Could it be more obvious?

[0rganism]

62. very interesting. how are Mr. Manafort's holdings in the Ukraine?

i do seem to recall hearing some reporting on one Paul Manafort having significant investments in the pro-Russia regions of the Ukraine. but i suppose that's just a coincidence.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

63. Trump has been blackballed by USA banks and he now relies on money from Russians

Donald Trump Jr. in 2008:

“Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” Trump’s son, Donald Jr., told a real estate conference in 2008, according to an account posted on the website of eTurboNews, a trade publication. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”

Trump was involved with Russian investors during the construction of Trump SoHo:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/us/politics/donald-trump-soho-settlement.html?_r=1

Besides the fraud accusations, a separate lawsuit claimed that Trump SoHo was developed with the undisclosed involvement of convicted felons and financing from questionable sources in Russia and Kazakhstan...

If the plans for it attracted controversy, so too would the company most responsible for its development: Bayrock Group.
Mr. Trump was foggy on how he first came to do business with Bayrock, a small development company whose offices were in Trump Tower in Midtown. In a deposition a few years ago, he said it might have been a Bayrock associate, Felix H. Sater, who first approached him in the early 2000s.
Mr. Sater, a Russian immigrant, had recently joined Bayrock at the behest of its founder, Tevfik Arif, a former Soviet-era commerce official originally from Kazakhstan. Bayrock, which was developing commercial properties in Brooklyn, proposed that Mr. Trump license his name to hotel projects in Florida, Arizona and New York, including Trump SoHo.
The other development partner for Trump SoHo was the Sapir Organization, whose founder, Tamir Sapir, was from the former Soviet republic of Georgia. In addition to receiving a licensing agreement, Mr. Trump would manage the completed condo-hotel, and he was also given a minor equity interest in it.
Emails and testimony in several lawsuits show that Mr. Sater and Mr. Arif worked closely with Mr. Trump and others in the Trump Organization. Mr. Trump was particularly taken with Mr. Arif’s overseas connections. In a deposition, Mr. Trump said that the two had discussed “numerous deals all over the world” and that Mr. Arif had brought potential Russian investors to Mr. Trump’s office to meet him.