the russian government now we know that he and his business were pursuing that during the presidential campaign the president now says it s perfectly fine he was doing that afterall, he s a real estate guy. he pursues real estate projects. as he says, everybody thought he would lose the presidential election so why would he forego? there was nothing wrong with him pursuing that deal that s what he says now. whatever you think about that explanation frpresident trump, that explanation would have held the same amount of water during the campaign instead, for months he explicitly lied and said he wasn t pursuing any deals in russia it wasn t illegal for him to pursue a real estate deal. he spins a story about that that tries to make it sound okay but