and in 2002, a company called bay rock moved into trump tower. it s a real estate company and it too had ties to the russian mafia. and they made donald trump an offer he could not refuse. they were going to put up $1 billion in financing. trump put up zero and yet he got 18% of the profits on their joint ventures. was he aware of this all the way along? set aside some time and read the piece? was he an unwitting participant? i have no idea what was going through donald trump s mind. but i think you can see that from the way the building was set up and the massive amounts of, you know, finding 13 people, frankly, i think that is the tip of the iceberg and the reason i think that is that a huge number of people who buy the condos use these shell companies since the
downplayed business ties to russia backup you a fascinating new piece of journalism tracks throe decade of russian money connected to trump properties. trump s russian laurnd of russian money reads the headline in whether trump knew it or not, russian mobsters used trump s properties not only to launder vest sums of money from extortion, drugs, gambling and rack tiering but as a base of operations first their criminal actives. without the russian mafia, it would be fair to say that donald trump would not be the president of the united states. and the author of this piece, craig younger. before i let you say a word i have another paragraph to read that you wrote. over the past three decades at least 13 people with known or alleged thinks to russian mobsters have owned, lived in and even run criminal ties out
trump s russian laurnd of russian money reads the headline in whether trump knew it or not, russian mobsters used trump s properties not only to launder vest sums of money from extortion, drugs, gambling and rack tiering but as a base of operations first their criminal actives. without the russian mafia, it would be fair to say that donald trump would not be the president of the united states. and the author of this piece, craig younger. before i let you say a word i have another paragraph to read that you wrote. over the past three decades at least 13 people with known or alleged thinks to russian mobsters have owned, lived in and even run criminal ties out of trump properties. many used his casinos to lounder money and some ran a high-staked gambling ring out of trump tower.
successful real estate entrepreneur in manhattan. jared is a great young man, went to harvard, very smart, great, doing a fantastic job in business. he s in the real estate business, done an amazing job in his own right, just incredible. long before conferring upon jared kushner, the title of senior adviser to the president, his father-in-law donald trump praised him regularly on the campaign trail. jared kushner has now served a few days shy of six months with the most elaborate policy portfolio in the modern history of the presidency. he s been asked to streamline and overhaul the federal government. serve as the primary contact for more than two dozen countries. reform veterans care, solve the opioid epidemic and come up with a plan to create lasting peace in the middle east, and there are others. he has attracted a whole lot of attention and not all of it good. the question being asked tonight is, is he an asset or a
going to ask congress to send me a bill to immediately repeal and replace disastrous obamacare. when we win on november 8th and elect a republican congress, we will be be able to immediately repeal and replace obamacare. i will ask congress to convene a special session so we can repeal and replace. and it will be such an honor for me, for you and for everybody in this country. because obamacare has to be replaced. and we will do it and we will do it very, very quickly. so, mr. crowley, as you know when we say this was elemental, when we say this has been the gop rallying cry through two terms of an obama presidency and the election to office of donald trump, that s what with we mean.