i don t know why i keep crying. after all these years you d think i d be over it by now, but i m not. it hurts. it s been a decade since sandra sipol felt duped by president trump. it was 2008. the international housing crisis was coming to a boil and sapol sensed something was wrong with trump ocean resort baja, mexico. we got in a car one saturday and we drove down there and that office was closed and there was no furniture left inside. you start getting emotional, you re like, no, no, nothing s wrong. within weeks, two letters. this letter was the very first time we heard the trump brand name and the trump this and the developer that.
it s been a decade since sandra felt duped by donald trump. it was 2008. the international housing crisis was coming to a boil and she felt that something was wrong with trump resort baja, mexico. we went down there one saturday and the office was closed and there was no furniture was left inside. you start getting emotional. no, nothing is wrong. reporter: within weeks, two letters. this letter was the first time we heard the trump brand name and the trump this and the developer that. licensed. reporter: it read, trump marks baja llc has elected to terminate the agreement. the baja project will not be able to proceed. she felt stunned and deceived.
now, but i m not. it hurts. it s been a decade since sandra sapole felt duped by donald trump, it was 2008. the international housing crisis was coming to a boil and sapole sensed something was wrong with trump ocean resort, baja, mexico. we got in the car one saturday and drove down there, there was no furniture left inside. you start getting emotional, you re like, no, no, nothing s wrong. within weeks, two letters. this letter was the very first time that we heard the trump brand name and the trump there and the developer that, licensed. it read trump marks bajallc has elected to terminate the license agreement. the second letter explained, given the extreme dislocation of the financial markets the baja project will not be able to proceed. sapole felt stunned.
within weeks, two letters. this letter was the very first time that we heard the trump brand name and the trump there and the developer that, licensed. it read trump marks baja llc has elected to terminate the license agreement. the second letter explained, given the extreme dislocation of the financial markets the baja project will not be able to proceed. sapole felt stunned. what? and deceived. what? the market sunk the project but she believed trump, the dealmaker she saw on celebrity apprentice, was steering the ship. trump organization attorney allen garten defended his client to cbs saying buyers had an obligation to read the fine print. it s incumbent on anyone accountable and responsible to
i think that s why this is mentioned so carefully in the documents we see today. jeremy bash, if we fast forward and look at this a certain way and someone comes up to you and says wait a minute, all of this was about hotels and money and hotel rooms that had the trump brand name on them? will you be confident saying yes it appears that was the motivation? no, i d put it differently. i think this was about leverage. it was about financial leverage over donald trump to make him indebted to the russian federation in the way they lent him money and did business deals with him so when he came into office he would owe them big time their interference in a campaign set up a situation in which they were able to demand that the income trump administration do certain things with them and they did exactly what they asked to be done. they helped avert sanctions on russia. they began to denigrate nato and posture the most pro-russian