Posted on 03/30/2018 12:31:35 AM PDT by blueplum
Exclusive: US authorities made inquiries even before 2016 election campaign into Trump property dealings in former Soviet Union
They wanted to build the Las Vegas of the Baltics. In 2010, a small group of businessmen including a wealthy Russian supporter of Vladimir Putin began working on plans to build a glitzy hotel and entertainment complex with Donald Trump in Riga, the capital of Latvia. {snip}
The Latvian talks began without fanfare. David Orowitz, Trump’s senior vice-president for acquisitions and development, discreetly visited Latvia in September 2010 to explore locations, according to one source. The island of Zakusala, in Riga’s Daugava river, emerged as the likeliest site. {snip}
Krutoy flew to Riga and in July gave a press conference about the Trump talks alongside Ainārs Šlesers, a flamboyant Latvian businessman and former deputy prime minister, who was assisting the efforts to secure Trump’s involvement.
“By attracting the attention of such a serious investor like Trump, we can think about directing New Wave towards a western European audience,” Krutoy said at the time.
Šlesers said in August 2011 that he, too, met Trump in New York and discussed the Riga collaboration “several times” with Ivanka Trump. {snip}
During a visit to Riga in May 2012, Donald Trump Jr acknowledged that his family had explored the potential Latvian development. “We were talking,” he told reporters, after being asked about Krutoy’s group. “We went back and forth for a little while. Nothing went forward, but it’s an area that we are interested in.”
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Why would Latvia even make a request if all that was overheard on taped conversations was the former VPM saying that he had talked to Trump and there was interest in the project? Maybe because the US encouraged Latvia to make that request? And who was in charge of the FBI from Sep 2013 on?
No crime here.
Unless Trump is guilty of doing real estate deals.
ok, FRiends, I’ve been on a bit of a tear tonite, but I wanted FReepers far ahead of the news cycle and innuendos that are being bandied about like flies in a hot summer barn, which is what Mueller seems to be chasing.
The Deep State is even deeper than we think. Trump is the right man at the right time in the right place to shine the disinfectant of sunlight on the malicious web that has been spun behind our backs. We need to get working now to make sure 2020 belongs to us, because this is going to take a while.
Maybe it was the hats of the Latvian Orthodox.
You know, with the basic plot.
Mueller is trying for a ham sandwich.
Russian collusion wasn’t an issue in 2010.
Now the media is obsessed with whether Trump did business with the Russians long before he ran for President.
Go figure.
Russian collusion wasn’t an issue in 2010.
Now the media is obsessed with whether Trump did business with the Russians long before he ran for President.
Go figure.
They’re desperate for anything before the mid-terms.
They’ll try anything. Capable of anything, I do believe.
The FBI’s intent is to wound Trump politically by 2018, impeach him by 2020, and if that doesn’t work, they’ll assasinate him.
Wish they would put this kind of effort into Obama and Hillary.
The last time I checked, Latvia was no longer a Soviet captive nation, but don’t tell The Guardian, Moscow’s voice in England.
Hell, Hillary was colluding with the Russians long before Trump had business dealings re this hotel in Latvia meeting.
Remember, she started to sell out our uranium about 2009.
And an AG who is AwOL,, will God please wake him up to the seriousness of what is happening to our country run by corrupt washington. Or fire him for being asleep at the job, he’s got too much of Washingtonian in his thinking.
Get an AG who works FOR us.
These folks are mentally ill. Their obsession with their ideology has blinded them to the point of idiocy.
Just imagine, libtards, if this project had taken off Mr. Trump might have been too busy to run for President.
I wish Trump would come out and say that He had explored opportunities in Latvia but decided against them in order to MAGA!
Take full advantage of the anti—russia hysteria.
At the end of the day, Mexico is a close ally. Unlike Russia, Mexico doesn’t pose a threat to US national security.
Yeah so what.
Latvia isn’t Russia and there was no Soviet Union in 2010. If this idiot Muller ends up doing sone ridiculous report, well Trump always had some interest in Russia and “they” had some interest in him, blah blah, it will amount to a coup attempt and Mueller will appear as a deluded partisan.
Mexico is a huge threat to our security.
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