Russia/Trump - All of the suspicious links.

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A must read: Trump’s Russia Scandal Suspicious Trump/Russia Links from 1977 to 2022:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections

1996
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Trump returns to Russia, visits Moscow with Howard Lorber and Bennett S. LeBow[12] to scout potential properties for "skyscrapers and hotels",[13] registers his trademark, and makes connections with the development company Bayrock Group (which would result in Trump Soho) and Felix Sater, who became crucial to later Trump Moscow talks.[14][10] Trump subsequently announces a plan to invest $250 million in Russia and brand two luxury residential buildings in Moscow, which doesn't come to fruition.[15]: 14  Other people on the trip include Leon Black of Apollo Global Management, Ron Bernstein, Theodore Liebman, and Matthew Calamari.[16]: 649  During the trip, Trump brings two women he met the night before to a business meeting, and begins a long-term relationship with a former "Miss Moscow".[16]: 650–655  In 2020, the Senate Intelligence Committee reports that it is unable to determine whether Russia has compromising material involving Trump and the three women.[17]

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2005
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Trump gives Bayrock Group an exclusive deal to build a Trump-branded property in Moscow.[22]
Kilimnik leaves the IRI to work for Manafort in Ukraine.[21]
June 23: Paul Manafort and a business partner, Rick Davis, propose a plan to Oleg Deripaska under which they would influence news coverage, business dealings, and politics in the former Soviet Union, Europe, and the United States "to benefit President Vladimir Putin's government".[23][24]: 131  They eventually sign a $10 million contract that starts in 2006 using LOAV Ltd. instead of Davis-Manafort; they maintain a business relationship until at least 2009.[23]

Much much more……