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Or, how about from the man
himself with documented proof?
Trump has said: “I have no ties to Russia no business in Russia, I know
nothing about Russia. It’s fabricated news – false and fake.” (Sic)
I note: (See
references below for July 2015 and July 2016) all statements from Donald J.
Trump himself – in his own words, not mine.
So, What About This Timeline:
1987 | Trump visits Moscow and tours various sites in an effort to strike
real estate deals in Soviet-era Russia. He stays in a hotel overlooking the
Kremlin, and tells Playboy that Russian jets escorted his own on the way to the
airport. Read more
1996 | Trump says he will hold a press conference with a Miami-based tobacco
company in Moscow announcing plans to build an office and apartment complex
similar to Trump Tower in New York. Read more
2005 | Trump gave the development company Bayrock a one-year deal to find asite for a Trump Tower. Felix Sater later testified that he identified a former
pencil factory as a site for the project, before the deal fell apart. Read more
Precisely on November 9, 2013 | While in Moscow for his Miss Universe competition,
Trump meets with Russian businessmen, including real estate developer ArasAgalarov, an ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin. Before the pageant,
Trump said to MSNBC, “I do have a relationship with Putin.” Read more
May 2014 | Trump tells a group at the National Press Club that
while he was in Moscow, he spoke with Putin “indirectly and directly.”
July 2015 | At a town hall in Las Vegas, Trump tells an audience
that he knew Putin. “I don't think you'd need the sanctions. I think that we would
get along very, very well.” Read more
September 2015 | Putin and Trump are on the season premiere of CBS “60
Minutes.” Although Trump would later say in a debate, “I got to know him very
well because we were both on 60 Minutes. We were stablemates.” (Time magazine revealed that they were interviewed in separate
cities.) Read more
December 2015 | Putin says Trump is “colorful and talented.” Trump
calls the compliment an “honor.” Even as ties to Russia become a campaign issue
in 2016, Trump refuses to renounce Putin: “A guy calls me a genius, and I’m
going to renounce? I’m not going to renounce him.” (Putin has
not publicly called Trump a genius.) Read more
April 2016 | Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak attends a speech in
Washington in which Trump vows to seek better relations with Russia. The president
of the think tank that invited Kislyak said he introduced the two in a
receiving line. Read more
July 2016 | In various news conferences and tweets, Trump says he
has “nothing to do with Russia,” and “I don't know who Putin is. I've never
spoken to him,” and tweeted: “For the
record, I have ZERO investments in Russia.” Trump has not released his tax
returns, so that can't be verified. At the same time, at a news conference, yet Trump
encouraged the Russians to hack Hillary Clinton's email. Read more
July 19, 2016 | Donald Trump, long seen as an unlikely candidate in
the 2016 presidential election, is nominated as the GOP presidential candidate
at the Republican National Convention. Read more
Precisely on November 10, 2016 | Two days after the election, a Russian official tells a reporter in Moscow that the Kremlin had been
in contact with Trump’s campaign. Trump spokesperson Hope Hicks denies it,
saying, “There was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity
during the campaign.” Read more
Precisely on January 20, 2017
(Inauguration Day) | Donald J. Trump
is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. He designates the day
as “National Day of Patriotic Devotion.” Read more
Precisely on January 28, 2017 | President Trump and Putin speak on the phone for an
hour. Read more
March 2017 | One of Trump's personal lawyers, Marc E. Kasowitz, is
named to the legal team defending Russia’s largest state-run bank in a
corporate-raiding case, Buzz Feed reports.
Read more
Summary: So,
are we to believe and trust Ivanka Trump-Kushner’s words about her father, or do
we take Mr. Trump at his own words? The choice is easy.
Just
imagine, we still have almost 4 full years to go with and for him to correct
himself. So, is that even possible? Based on his track record thus far, I’d
have to say in all honesty, that seems highly unlikely since he is obviously set
in this ways and not apt to change for much of anything except for that which
benefits him and his name – that, too is habitual.
Time
will tell – stay tuned.
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