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mitty14u2

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Sun Jul 1, 2018, 06:19 PM Jul 2018

Trump Russian Billionairs Oligarchs 2013 Starts Crazy USA vs Russia vs Trump & Family

Trump in Moscow: what happened at Miss Universe in 2013

After just ten minutes of discussion, Trump was showing off his new friend. “He clapped me on the shoulder, gave a thumbs up, and started shouting, ‘Look who’s come to see me! It’s the richest man in Russia!’,” Agalarov recalled to a Russian magazine later that year, before clarifying that his fortune – estimated at about $2bn – was far from Russia’s biggest.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/18/trump-in-moscow-what-happened-at-miss-universe-in-2013

At The 2013 Miss Universe Contest, Trump Met Some Of Russia's Rich And Powerful

The political bomb that went off recently when Donald Trump Jr. revealed he met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer in hopes of getting damaging information about Hillary Clinton has raised new questions about the Trump family's connections to Russia.

https://www.npr.org/2017/07/17/537277074/at-the-2013-miss-universe-contest-trump-met-some-of-russias-rich-and-powerful


Mueller investigating Russian billionaires invited to Trump inauguration festivities: report

One Trump guest, oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, has even been sanctioned by the Treasury Department in response to what U.S. officials called Moscow’s broad destabilizing activities during the presidential race.
The men were taken to exclusive events that were reserved for members of Trump’s inner circle and top donors

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/394637-mueller-investigating-russian-billionaires-invited-to-trump

Trump, Russian billionaire say they’ve never met, but their jets did — in Charlotte

Trump and Rybolovlev, however, agree on this: They say they have never met, although Trump sold a Palm Beach mansion to the Russian fertilizer magnate for $95 million eight years earlier. Rybolovlev recently bulldozed the mansion and is selling the oceanfront property.

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article136940273.html

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Trump Russian Billionairs Oligarchs 2013 Starts Crazy USA vs Russia vs Trump & Family (Original Post) mitty14u2 Jul 2018 OP
The plot thickens, still more empedocles Jul 2018 #1

empedocles

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1. The plot thickens, still more
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 06:38 PM
Jul 2018

Liked the line, 'say they've never met, but their jets did -- in Charlotte

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