2. Craig Unger, “Trump’s Russian Laundromat,” New Republic, July 13, 2017, https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate.
CHAPTER ONE: RUSSIA AND THE TRUMPS
1. Oren Dorell, “Donald Trump’s ties to Russia go back 30 years,” USA Today, February 15, 2017, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/02/15/donald-trumps-ties-russia-go-back-30-years/97949746/.
2. The Moscow Project, “Banks refuse to lend to Trump, citing ‘the Donald risk.’ ” https://themoscowproject.org/collusion/banks-refuse-lend-trump-citing-donald-risk/.
3. Susanne Craig and David W. Chen, “Donald Trump Considered Path to Presidency Starting at Governor’s Mansion in New York,” New York Times, March 5, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/nyregion/donald-trump-new-york-governor.html.
4. Conor Friedersdorf, “When Donald Trump Became a Celebrity,” Atlantic, January 2016, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/the-decade-when-donald-trump-became-a-celebrity/422838/; Jonathan Chait, “Will Trump Be Meeting with His Counterpart—Or His Handler?” New York, July 2018, http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-putin-russia-collusion.html.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ilan Ben-Meir, “That Time Trump Spent Nearly $100,000 On An Ad Criticizing U.S. Foreign Policy,” BuzzFeed News, July 2015, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ilanbenmeir/that-time-trump-spent-nearly-100000-on-an-ad-criticizing-us.
8. Michael Kruse, “The True Story of Donald Trump’s First Campaign Speech—In 1987,” Politico, February 2016, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/donald-trump-first-campaign-speech-new-hampshire-1987-213595.
9. David Ignatius, “A history of Donald Trump’s business dealings in Russia,” Washington Post, November 2, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-history-of-donald-trumps-business-dealings-in-russia/2017/11/02/fb8eed22-ba9e-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html?utm_term=.72af02b3fd8c.
10. Bryan Hood, “4 Times Donald Trump’s Companies Declared Bankruptcy,” Vanity Fair, June 29, 2015, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/06/donald-trump-companies-bankruptcy-atlantic-city.
11. Ignatius, “A history of Donald Trump’s business dealings in Russia.”
12. Megan Twohey and Steve Eder, “For Trump, Three Decades of Chasing Deals in Russia,” New York Times, January 16, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-business.html.
13. David Ignatius, “A history of Donald Trump’s business dealings in Russia.”
14. Twohey and Eder, “For Trump, Three Decades of Chasing Deals in Russia.”
15. Susanne Craig, “Trump Boasts of Rapport With Wall St., but the Feeling Is Not Quite Mutual,” New York Times, May 23, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/business/dealbook/donald-trump-relationship-bankers.html.
16. Mark Singer, “Trump Solo,” New Yorker, May 19, 1997, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/05/19/trump-solo.
17. Ibid.
18. “Five prime minsters sacked in Yeltsin’s reshuffles,” Irish Times, August 10, 1999, https://www.irishtimes.com/news/five-prime-ministers-sacked-in-yeltsin-s-many-reshuffles-1.215145.
19. Marcus Warren, “Putin ‘rigged Miss Russia contest as policewoman’s secret admirer,’ ” Telegraph, April 22, 2001, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/1317002/Putin-rigged-Miss-Russia-contest-as-policewomans-secret-admirer.html.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Francie Grace, “Russia Wins 1st Miss Universe Title,” CBS News, May 30, 2002, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-wins-1st-miss-universe-title/.
24. “Russia Gangster knocks up Miss Universe,” Pravda, October 1, 2002, http://www.pravdareport.com/news/russia/01-10-2002/13864-0/.
25. “Vladimir Putin’s girl became miss universe,” Pravda, May 30, 2002, http://www.pravdareport.com/news/russia/30-05-2002/43486-0/.
26. Personal communication with author, November 2, 2017.
27. Lisa Respers France, “Pageant coordinator quoted as saying Trump picks finalists,” CNN, September 2, 2009, http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/09/02/trump.pageant.selection/index.html?iref=nextin.
28. Personal communication with author, November 2, 2017.
29. Ibid.
30. Sue Chan, “Deposed Miss Couldn’t Give The Time,” CBS News, September 23, 2002, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/deposed-miss-couldnt-give-the-time/.
31. Personal communication with author, November 2, 2017.
32. Hazel Heyer, “Executive Talk: Donald Trump Jr. bullish on Russia and few emerging markets,” ETN, September 15, 2008, https://www.eturbonews.com/9788/executive-talk-donald-trump-jr-bullish-russia-and-few-emerging-ma.
33. Caleb Melby and Keri Geiger, “Behind Trump’s Russia Romance, There’s a Tower Full of Oligarchs,” Bloomberg Businessweek, March 16, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-16/behind-trump-s-russia-romance-there-s-a-tower-full-of-oligarchs.
34. Lachian Markay and Dean Sterling Jones, “Inside the Online Campaign to Whitewash the History of Donald Trump’s Business Associates,” Daily Beast, July 15, 2018, https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-online-campaign-to-whitewash-donald-trumps-russian-business-ties.
35. Greg Price, “Ivanka Trump Sat In Vladimir Putin’s Chair And Spun Around When At Kremlin, President’s Former Associates Say,”Newsweek, May 17, 2018, https://www.newsweek.com/ivanka-putin-chair-spun-kremlin-931754.
36. Mark Abadi, “Former Trump adviser says in email that he ‘arranged for Ivanka to sit in Putin’s private chair’ during a trip to Moscow,”Business Insider, August 28, 2017, https://www.businessinsider.com/ivanka-trump-putin-chair-felix-sater-russia-2017-8.
37. Michael Koenigs, “The controversial residents of Trump Tower,” ABC News, February 23, 2018, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/controversial-residents-trump-tower/story?id=52577191.
38. Jeff Horwitz and Chad Day, “AP Exclusive: Before Trump job, Manfort worked to aid Putin,” Associated Press, March 22, 2017, https://www.apnews.com/122ae0b5848345faa88108a03de40c5a/Manafort’s-plan-to-’greatly-benefit-the-PutinGovernment?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP_Politics.
39. Ibid.
40. Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger, “Former Mafia-linked figure describes association with Trump,” Washington Post, May 17, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-mafia-linked-figure-describes-association-with-trump/2016/05/17/cec6c2c6-16d3-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html?utm_term=.62c25be47c39.
41. Ibid.
42. Timothy O’Brien, “Trump, Russia and a Shadowy Business Partnership,” Bloomberg, June 21, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-21/trump-russia-and-those-shadowy-sater-deals-at-bayrock.
43. Ibid.
44. Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger, “Former Mafia-linked figure describes association with Trump.”
45. Tom Hamburger, Rosalind S. Helderman, and Michael Birnbaum, “Inside Trump’s financial ties to Russia and his unusual flattery of Vladimir Putin,” Washington Post, June 17, 2016, 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?utm_term=.df008f0d1033.
46. Twohey and Eder, “For Trump, Three Decades of Chasing Deals in Russia.”
47. Ibid.
48. Ibid.
49. Russ Choma, “The Trump Files: Watch the Trump Vodka Ad Designed for a Russian Audience,” Mother Jones, July 29, 2016, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/07/trump-files-watch-trump-vodka-ad-designed-russian-audience/.
50. Tony Wong, “Priciest condo in tallest tower goes to youngest billionaire,” Toronto Star, August 11, 2011, https://www.thestar.com/business/2007/08/11/priciest_condo_in_tallest_tower_goes_to_youngest_billionaire.html.
51. Heidi Brown and Nathan Vardi, “Man of Steel,” Forbes, March 28, 2005 https://www.forbes
.com/forbes/2005/0328/132.html#3990004e2fc0.
52. Robert Cribb et al., “How every investor lost money on Trump Tower Toronto, but Donald Trump made millions anyway,” Toronto Star, October 21, 2017, https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/10/21/how-every-investor-lost-money-on-trump-tower-toronto-but-donald-trump-made-millions-anyway.html.
53. Rob Barry, Christopher S. Stewart, and Brett Forrest, “Russian State-Run Bank Financed Deal Involving Trump Hotel Partner,” Wall Street Journal, May 17, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-state-run-bank-financed-deal-involving-trump-hotel-partner-1495031708.
54. Alec Luhn, “Who is Sergei Gorkov, the powerful Russian banker who met Jared Kushner,” Guardian, June 3, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/03/sergei-gorkov-russian-banker-jared-kushner.
55. David Filipov et al., “Explanations for Kushner’s meeting with head of Kremlin-linked bank don’t match,” Washington Post, June 1, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/explanations-for-kushners-meeting-with-head-of-kremlin-linked-bank-dont-match-up/2017/06/01/dd1bdbb0-460a-11e7-bcde-624ad94170ab_story.html?utm_term=.438970db7b77.
56. Ibid.
57. Bob Dreyfuss, “Unpacking a Strange, Violent Connection Between Trump and Putin,” Rolling Stone, May 11, 2018, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/unpacking-a-strange-violent-connection-between-trump-and-putin-630690/.
58. Ibid.
59. Heyer, “Executive Talk: Donald Trump Jr. bullish on Russia and few emerging markets.”
60. Ibid.
61. Ibid.
62. Ibid.
63. Ibid.
64. Emily Stewart, “Read: Donald Trump Jr.’s congressional testimony about the Trump Tower Meeting,” Vox, May 16, 2018, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/16/17360484/donald-trump-jr-transcript-senate-judiciary-committee.
65. Heyer, “Executive Talk: Donald Trump Jr. bullish on Russia and few emerging markets.”
66. Ibid.
67. Ibid.
68. Ibid.
69. Melby and Geiger, “Behind Trump’s Russia Romance, There’s a Tower Full of Oligarchs.”
70. Craig Unger, “Trump’s Russian Laundromat,” New Republic, July 13, 2017, https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate.
71. Michael Crowley, “Trump and the Oligarch,” Politico, July 28, 2016, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/donald-trump-2016-russian-ties-214116.
72. Ibid.
73. Ibid.
74. Ibid.
75. Kevin G. Hall et al., “Trump, Russian billionaire say they’ve never met, but their jets did—in Charlotte,” Charlotte Observer, March 7, 2017, https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article136940273.html.
76. Ibid.
77. Ibid.
78. Ibid.
79. Ibid.
80. Nathan Layne et al., “Special Report: Russian elite invested nearly $100 million in Trump buildings, records show,” Reuters, March 17, 2017, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-property-specialreport-idUSKBN16O2F6.
81. Z. Byron Wolf, “Russia’s oligarchs are different from other billionaires,” CNN, April 6, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/06/politics/oligarch-russia-billionaires-government-putin-sanctions/index.html.
82. Howard Adelman, “Two More Eastern Israeli Billionaires: Mashkevich and Rabinovich,” Howardadelman.com, June 5, 2006, https://howardadelman.com/2013/05/06/two-more-eastern-european-israeli-billionaires-mashkevich-and-rabinovich-02-05-13/.
83. Marc Champion, “How a Trump Soho Partner Ended Up With Toxic Mining Riches From Kazakhstan,” Bloomberg, January 11, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-11/how-a-trump-soho-partner-ended-up-with-toxic-mining-riches-from-kazakhstan.
84. Jesse Eisenger et al., “Ivanka and Donald Trump Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud,” ProPublica, October 4, 2017, https://www.propublica.org/article/ivanka-donald-trump-jr-close-to-being-charged-felony-fraud.
85. Tina Nguyen, “Eric Trump Reportedly Bragged About Access to $100 million in Russian Money,” Vanity Fair, May 8, 2017, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/eric-trump-russia-investment-golf-course.
86. Unger, “Trump’s Russian Laundromat.”
87. FBI, https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/topten-history/hires_images/FBI-494-SemionMogilevich.jpg/view, retrieved August 16, 2018.
88. Singer, “Trump Solo.”
89. Kevin Hall and Ben Weider, “Trump dreamed of his name on towers across former Soviet Union,” McClatchy, June 28, 2017, https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article158518589.html.
90. Shane Harris, “Signs of Trump-Putin collaboration, starting years before the campaign?” Washington Post, August 17, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/is-there-a-case-for-trump-putin-collaboration-years-before-the-campaign/2018/08/16/00578f1e-9440-11e8-80e1-00e80e1fdf43_story.html?utm_term=.04a8ad6b2b6a.
91. Ibid.
92. Jessica Durando, “Trump says ‘I have nothing to do with Russia.’ That’s not exactly true,” USA Today, January 11, 2017, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/01/11/donald-trump-russia-vladimir-putin/96444482/.
93. Ben Protess et al., “Mueller Wants Trump’s Business Records. What’s the Russia Connection?” New York Times, March 17, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/business/trump-organization-russia-mueller.html.
94. Ibid.
95. Ignatius, “A history of Trump’s business dealings in Russia.”
96. Amy Cheng and Humza Jilani, “Trump on Putin:The U.S. President’s View, In His Own Words,” Foreign Policy, July 18, 2018, https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/18/trump-on-putin-the-u-s-president-in-his-own-words/.
97. Jill Colvin, “Have Trump and Putin met before? It depends when you asked,” Associated Press, July 7, 2017, https://www.apnews.com/ff6f1043180d490bb1f3c3d07fa26d45.
98. Ibid.
99. Ibid.
100. Ibid.
101. Charlotte Alter, “Here’s the Deal with That 60 Minutes Episode Trump Mentioned,” Time, November 11, 2015, http://time.com/4108198/donald-trump-60-minutes-putin/.
102. Colvin, “Have Trump and Putin met before? It depends when you asked.”
103. Ibid.
104. Ibid.
105. Ibid.
106. “Trump Rule—Hot Chicks Required in Miss USA,” TMZ, November 12, 2009, http://www.tmz.com/2009/11/12/trump-rule-hot-chicks-required-in-miss-usa/; Tessa Stuart, “A Timeline of Donald Trump’s Creepiness While H Owned Miss Universe,” Rolling Stone, October 12, 2016, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/a-timeline-of-donald-trumps-creepiness-while-he-owned-miss-universe-191860/.
107. Ibid.
108. Joshua Cinelli, “Donald Trump’s hand-picked Miss Universe: Choreographer spills on “rigged” selection process,” New York Daily News, September 2, 2009, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/donald-trump-hand-picked-universe-choreographer-spills-rigged-selection-process-article-1.403667.
109. Jessica Kwong, “Trump Eliminated Miss Universe Finalists Who Were ‘Too Ethnic’ or ‘Snubbed His Advances,’ Pageant Staff Claim,” Newsweek, March 8, 2018, https://www.newsweek.com/trump-miss-universe-women-ethnic-837139.
110. Stuart, “A Timeline of Donald Trump’s Creepiness While He Owned Miss Universe.”
111. Ibid.
112. Jenna Johnson, “Trump attacks former Miss Universe who ‘gained a massive amount of weight’ and had ‘attitude’ ” Washington Post, September 17, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/09/27/trump-attacks-former-miss-universe-who-gained-a-massive-amount-of-weight-and-had-attitude/?utm_term=.895fd5ac86ae.
113. “I’m not married, says dethroned Miss Universe,” Sydney Morning Herald, September 25, 2002, https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/im-not-married-says-dethroned-miss-universe-20020925-gdfnw7.html.
114. Ibid.
115. Ibid.
116. Ibid.
117. Ibid.
118. Ibid.
119. Andrew Rice, “The Original Russia Connection,” New York, August 7, 2017, http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/felix-sater-donald-trump-russia-investigation.html; Bob Dreyfuss, “Who Is Felix Sater, and Why Is Donald Trump So Afraid of Him?” Nation, September 8, 2017, https://www.thenation.com/article/who-is-felix-sater-and-why-is-donald-trump-so-afraid-of-him/.
120. Ibid.
121. “Trump picked Mafia-linked stock fraud felon as senior adviser,” Chicago Tribune, December 4, 2015, http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-felix-sater-felon-adviser-20151204-story.html.
122. Richard Behar, “Donald Trump and the Felon: Inside His Business Dealings with a Mob-Connected Hustler,” Forbes, October 25, 2016, https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbehar/2016/10/03/donald-trump-and-the-felon-inside-his-business-dealings-with-a-mob-connected-hustler/.
123. Ibid.
124. Luke Harding, Collusion (New York: Vintage Books, 2017), p. 292.
125. Ibid., pp. 291–92.
126. Ibid.
127. O’Brien, “Trump, Russia and a Shadowy Business Partnership.”
128. Martin Longman, “Trump’s Soho Project, The Mob, and Russian Intelligence,” Washington Monthly, February 20, 2017, https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/02/20/trumps-soho-project-the-mob-and-russian-intelligence/; Martin Longman, “The Odd Chabad Connection Between Trump and Putin,” Washington Monthly, November 27, 2017, https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/11/27/the-odd-chabad-connection-between-putin-and-trump/.
129. Konrad Putzier, “Hotel trio aims to bring Manhattan to Moscow,” Real Estate Weekly, November 12, 2013, https://rew-online.com/hotel-trio-aims-to-bring-manhattan-to-moscow/.
130. Behar, “Donald Trump and the Felon.”
131. Carol D. Leonig et al., “Trump’s business sought deal on a Trump Tower in Moscow while he ran for president,” Washington Post, August 27, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-business-sought-deal-on-a-trump-tower-in-moscow-while-he-ran-for-president/2017/08/27/d6e95114-8b65-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a_story.html?utm_term=.17a015b794cd.
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