It’s not hard to know that Donald Trump lied every single time he tried to play off his connections to Russia. But now, a reporter who wrote a story on Trump and his golf courses, and spoke to his son, Eric, is spilling the truth about that, and that truth comes from Eric Trump himself.
James Dodson, who co-wrote famous golfer Arnold Palmer’s memoir, spent a day hitting the links in North Carolina with Eric about three years ago. Dodson was curious as to how The Donald was funding his golf course purchases and renovations, and he wanted to know how they were funding all of that since American banks hadn’t touched golf courses since the 2008 financial crash.
Eric said:
‘Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.’ I said, ‘Really?’ And he said, ‘Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that really, really love golf, and they’re really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time.’ Now that was three years ago, so it was pretty interesting.
Well, there it is. Trump’s golf course projects have been bankrolled by Russia. That puts Trump in debt to Russian entities who are controlled by the state (meaning Putin). And Trump loudly proclaimed back in January that he had no dealings with Russia. No deals or loans or anything except this meaningless sale:
You know the closest I came to Russia, I bought a house a number of years ago in Palm Beach, Fla. There was a man who went bankrupt and I bought the house for $40 million and I sold it to a Russian for $100 million including brokerage commissions. So I sold it. So I bought it for 40, I sold it for 100 to a Russian. That was a number of years ago.
Eric, however, admitted that they were paying roughly $100 million for all those courses they were buying and renovating. That is a lot of Russian financing. Furthermore, Jared Kushner was meeting with a Russian banker, whose bank we slapped with sanctions back in 2014, during the transition. Combine that with Eric’s revelation and his father’s blatantly obvious lies, and things really don’t look good.
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