brookfield properties. as the times puts it today, brookfield has financial ties to the government of qatar. the qatar investment authority is the second largest shareholder in brookfield properties ranking only behind brookfield s parent company. boomberg news puts an even finer point on it, noting the kushner company is doing this deal with a specific unit of brookfield and the single largest owner of that unit is qatar. the qatar investment authority which invests on behalf of qatar s government. so who says big city real estate has to be complicated? or foreign policy for that matter. qatar tells the kushner family real estate company no, we re not going to give you hundreds of millions of dollars to bail you out of your failing skyscraper in midtown. u.s. policy toward qatar almost immediately turns suddenly and radically hostile against qatar. qatar freaks out a little bit, scrambles a little bit. qatar decides okay, we ll take
trump name on them. the trump soho is a very, very special building. in the case of trump tower soho, the trump organization got 18% ownership of the tower without investing a single dime according to boomberg news. the financing for the project was left up to his partner, bay rock group. it s a problematic project from top to bottom. a lawsuit filed by a former insider in 2010 accuses bay rock of money laundering and having questionable ties to russia and russian organized crime. the suit is ongoing and bay rock denies the allegations. there s a, huh, why would trump ever do business with those guys. guys like bay rock s key executive, a russian born. the suit accusing him of shady
private plane was spotted in two u.s. cities where trump was campaigning, north carolina and las vegas, nevada. it looks suspicious that you have this russian oligarch bird dogging our president on the campaign trail. news was told the pair never met. and it was pure coincidence that occurred while he was traveling on unrelated business. we still don t understand that to this day. what remains clear however is that this oligarch is hardly the only russian to have bolstered donald trump s bottom line. there s a surprising number of russians involved in his deals everywhere. after the collapse in 1991 that threatened to end his empire for good. trump spent most of the decade digging out from under enormous debt. he was unfinanceable by major
for the president potentially. just about a month after terminating comey, trump may have pursued yet another firing. he pressed white house counsel don mcgahn to look into potential conflicts involving robert mueller. the new york times reported that trump wanted mueller fired. until mcgahn threatened to quit, warning it would be catastrophic for the trump presidency. fake news, folks fake news. the president now says he wants to talk to mueller under oath. even though his lawyers have advised him against it. the special counsel has a very wide net that he can cast to look into all things russia, and who knows what else s going to find. mr. comey, the president. that wouldn t have happened had the president trump not fired james comey. what s your next move? will you come back, sir? still ahead, chasing an
point. it isn t so much that he s invested in russia, it s that he s receiving finance from russia. i have more oligarchs living in my building. and before he became a politician, businessman donald trump boasted about it. i ve done a lot of business dealings with russians. back in 2008, at the height of the u.s. housing collapse, trump made a record breaking deal with a russian oligarch known as the fertilizer king. he bought from donald trump a mansion in florida. i paid $40 million, i sold it for $100 million, and i sold it to a russian. r. donald j. trump. he would reappear during the 2016 election. when according to news, his