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(2,198 posts)Is the dossier available from Buzzfeed?
Where can we read a leaked copy. Is it available anywhere?
PunkinPi
(4,875 posts)Iplayoneontv
(77 posts)Though of course if you read the actual story, it's mostly that Ukraine told Clinton Manafort was dirty.
George II
(67,782 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)is also not a powerful international rival, either.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)with the freaking russians.
Disgusting.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,181 posts)From the May 15, 2016 Politico:
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-russia-moscow-miss-universe-223173
"At the heart of the episode is Trumps relationship with Aras Agalarov, a billionaire Russian real estate mogul with ties to Putin, and Agalarovs rakish son, Emin, 36, a dance-pop singer with ambitions to international stardom who got Trump to appear in one of his music videos.
The father and son are two of several ultra-wealthy Russians to whom Trump is connected and with whom he has pursued real estate deals. I have always been interested in building in Russia, he told the New York Post just after his return from Moscow. He also boasted upon his return from the pageant that almost all of the oligarchs were in the room.
The elder Agalarov was born in Azerbaijan in 1956 and has made a Forbes-estimated fortune of nearly $1.3 billion in real estate development. His company, Crocus Group, has won contracts from Putins Kremlin, including for two World Cub 2018 stadiums. Putin himself recognized Agalarovs commercial work in a 2013 ceremony at the Kremlin, where he pinned a medal of honor on Agalarovs lapel."
And from a June 17, 2016 Washington Post article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-trumps-financial-ties-to-russia-and-his-unusual-flattery-of-vladimir-putin/2016/06/17/dbdcaac8-31a6-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html?utm_term=.70552ebd510a&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1
Donald Trump was in his element, mingling with beauty pageant contestants and business tycoons as he brought his Miss Universe pageant to Russia for a much-anticipated Moscow debut. Nonetheless, Trump was especially eager for the presence of another honored guest: Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump tweeted Putin a personal invitation to attend the pageant, and a one-on-one meeting between the New York businessman and the Russian leader was scheduled for the day before the show.
Putin canceled at the last minute, but he sent a decorative lacquered box, a traditional Russian gift, and a warm note, according to Aras Agalarov, a Moscow billionaire who served as a liaison between Trump and the Russian leader.
Still, the weekend was fruitful for Trump. He received a portion of the $14 million paid by Agalarov and other investors to bring the pageant to Moscow. Agalarov said he and Trump signed an agreement to build a Trump Tower in the heart of Moscow at least Trumps fifth attempt at such a venture. And Trump seemed energized by his interactions with Russias financial elite at the pageant and a glitzy after-party in a Moscow nightclub.