Which is how Josh Marshall titles this post on the Trump/Russia connection(s), based in large part on this report from Bloomberg:
It gets pretty convoluted, but the Bloomberg report is illuminating, and Marshall has some pertinent comments as well: It's not as simple as Trump being Putin's puppet.
Trump’s soft spot for Russia is an ongoing mystery, and the large number of condominium sales he made to people with ties to former Soviet republics may offer clues. “We had big buyers from Russia and Ukraine and Kazakhstan,” says Debra Stotts, a sales agent who filled up the tower. The very top floors went unsold for years, but a third of units sold on floors 76 through 83 by 2004 involved people or limited liability companies connected to Russia and neighboring states, a Bloomberg investigation shows.
It gets pretty convoluted, but the Bloomberg report is illuminating, and Marshall has some pertinent comments as well: It's not as simple as Trump being Putin's puppet.
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