Trump’s relationship with Russia goes far back. In 1987, before the collapse of the Soviet Union, he was meeting with Soviet officials and negotiating the building of “luxury hotels” in Moscow and Leningrad. A story at the time said Trump had met Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin, who mentioned how much his daughter had admired the “opulent” Trump Tower in New York City. This led to an invitation to Trump to visit the USSR. The story said Dubinin wrote a letter to Trump, who hosted a meeting with Soviet officials in New York.
The invitation to Moscow was issued by Intourist, the giant Soviet in-country travel organization which operated all the hotels for foreigners in the Soviet Union. Intourist was created in 1929 by Joseph Stalin and run by KGB officials. Intourist hotels were designed for wealthy foreigners, and virtually all the Intourist guides were KGB informers. In fact, one aspect of their jobs was the recruitment of foreigners.
However, Trump expressed concern about “Soviet regulations on joint ventures, which require that the Soviets hold a controlling 51 percent interest” in such projects. Trump wanted majority control.
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Part of “Art of the Deal” is that you put it together, and if it’s received the way it is put together, fine, but if it isn’t, walk away...and that is what Trump did...
It’s his Empire, he built it, and he should have 100% say how it’s going to be done...I wouldn’t except anything less either...
Agreed. Cliff Kincaid’s basic point is “Trump did business in Russia, so that makes him in bed with Putin’s crimes.”
By the same sort of tortured logic, Ted Cruz is at least partly responsible for the housing bubble collapse and the recession.