Mr. Trump Took Miss Universe to Moscow and 'Met the Top People'Mr. Trump's business opportunities in Russia got little traction until he took the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow in 2013.A father-son pair of real estate developers, Aras and Emin Agalarov, paid nearly $20 million to license the Miss Universe name, bringing the contest to their Crocus City Hall in Moscow.
As an owner of the pageant, Mr. Trump flew to Russia in November 2013 to participate.
There is no indication of a Russian connection to Mr. Trump's loans or accounts at Deutsche Bank, and there is no public evidence that Mr. Mueller has subpoenaed the bank for records about Mr. Trump.
The bank has already been asked to turn over documents to federal prosecutors in Brooklyn about another client with a White House connection: the Kushner Companies, the family business of Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump's son-in-law and adviser.
A respected golf writer says that Eric Trump, a son of Mr. Trump's who is now helping to run the Trump Organization, told him the money came from Russia.
Last year, during an interview on Boston public radio, the golf journalist James Dodson recounted a conversation he had had with Eric Trump in 2013 on a newly opened Trump golf course in Charlotte, N.C. Mr. Dodson said he had asked Mr. Trump about the company's sources of funds, and Mr. Trump told him, "We have pretty much all the money we need from investors in Russia."
Eric Trump has denied making the comment about Russia, but several of Mr. Dodson's friends and colleagues confirmed that Mr. Dodson relayed the anecdote to them shortly after the conversation took place.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/business/trump-organization-russia-mueller.html
As an owner of the pageant, Mr. Trump flew to Russia in November 2013 to participate.
There is no indication of a Russian connection to Mr. Trump's loans or accounts at Deutsche Bank, and there is no public evidence that Mr. Mueller has subpoenaed the bank for records about Mr. Trump.
The bank has already been asked to turn over documents to federal prosecutors in Brooklyn about another client with a White House connection: the Kushner Companies, the family business of Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump's son-in-law and adviser.
A respected golf writer says that Eric Trump, a son of Mr. Trump's who is now helping to run the Trump Organization, told him the money came from Russia.
Last year, during an interview on Boston public radio, the golf journalist James Dodson recounted a conversation he had had with Eric Trump in 2013 on a newly opened Trump golf course in Charlotte, N.C. Mr. Dodson said he had asked Mr. Trump about the company's sources of funds, and Mr. Trump told him, "We have pretty much all the money we need from investors in Russia."
Eric Trump has denied making the comment about Russia, but several of Mr. Dodson's friends and colleagues confirmed that Mr. Dodson relayed the anecdote to them shortly after the conversation took place.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/business/trump-organization-russia-mueller.html
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