"I don't make money from Russia" - "I don't do business with Russia" - from NYT (edited)

[Leghorn21]

...By the way, I would say, I don’t — I don’t — I mean, it’s possible there’s a condo or something, so, you know, I sell a lot of condo units, and somebody from Russia buys a condo, who knows? I don’t make money from Russia...I don’t have buildings in Russia. They said I own buildings in Russia. I don’t. They said I made money from Russia. I don’t. It’s not my thing. I don’t, I don’t do that....

...And actually, when I do my filings, peoples say, “Man.” People have no idea how successful this is. It’s a great company...

....But I have no income from Russia. I don’t do business with Russia. The gentleman that you mentioned, with his son, two nice people. But basically, they brought the Miss Universe pageant to Russia to open up, you know, one of their jobs. Perhaps the convention center where it was held. It was a nice evening, and I left. I left, you know, I left Moscow. It wasn’t Moscow, it was outside of Moscow...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-interview-transcript.html

Nooooooo comment
(well, okay, I really enjoyed the last three sentences. More fun if you read them aloud.)

[Mrs. Overall]

1. How the f*ck is this incoherent driveling idiot the president?

[doc03]

2. When Chump says he doesn't do something you can bet he is

lying his ass off.

[Honeycombe8]

3. That's in direct contradiction to what Jr. has said.

Although I think Jr. has said they get a lot of money from "the Russians." Don't think he said "Russia," which implies it's the govt directly. Jr. made this statement a few yrs ago. I'll look for the link. That's not the only time, either.

But in Russia, there is no difference. The oligarchs make money through the largess of Putin. Putin controls everything.

I thought it was known that Russia made loans to Trump. Other countries did, too. But I thought it was known that Russia did. Maybe I'm wrong about that.

[Leghorn21]

7. From think progress, May 7:

“As we were setting off, I said, ‘Eric, who’s funding? I know no banks — because of the recession, the Great Recession — have touched a golf course. You know, no one’s funding any kind of golf construction. It’s dead in the water the last four or five years.’ And this is what he said. He said, ‘Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.’ I said, ‘Really?’ And he said, ‘Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that really, really love golf, and they’re really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time.’ Now that was three years ago, so it was pretty interesting.”

This wouldn’t have been the first time one of the Trump offspring bragged about Russian funding. At a real estate conference in 2008, Donald Trump Jr. said that the Russian money was “pouring in” to the Trump business.

“And in terms of high-end product influx into the US, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets; say in Dubai, and certainly with our project in SoHo and anywhere in New York. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia,” he said.

https://thinkprogress.org/eric-trump-reportedly-bragged-about-russian-funding-streams-e6f3e525f10e

[Honeycombe8]

8. +1. nt

[HipChick]

4. He wants to confess...

He'd sleep better at night..

[C_U_L8R]

5. A good prosecutor would have a field day with Trump

Hopefully soon

[Grammy23]

6. He is a lying sack of

Monkey sh*t. That is all.

[Wellstone ruled]

9. What do expect from a

puss-bag.

[leftstreet]

10. I thought Trump said NYT was 'fake news'

So will he tweet tomorrow that his own words are 'fake news?'

[Gman]

11. He never denied his financing comes from Russia.

He couldn't sell one condo unless the construction was financed. And no one in the US would loan him money.

[Squinch]

12. I take that to mean that the collusion began in Russia but outside Moscow.

[Leghorn21]

13. Oh, *SNORT*!!! Hahahahaaa, you might be 100% on that, Squinch!! - LOSER 45's just

"parsing his words", you say? Copy dat!

Hilarious!

[Squinch]

17. One thing that we are learning about him: when he does something wrong he ALWAYS

gives it away either by a Freudian slip or a projection of his actions onto someone else.

[Kablooie]

14. That's a nervous guy, I'd wager.

Sounds like something is beginning to seep into that vacuous space inside his skull.

[WinkyDink]

15. "It wasn't Moscow, it was outside of Moscow...." The unnecessary detailing of a psychopath.

[WinkyDink]

16. He doesn't "make money from Russia." HE OWES THEM. BIGLY.

[ProfessorGAC]

18. You Beat Me To It, Winky Dink!

Yeah, he doesn't make money there. It lost its behind and Russia floated him the money to keep things afloat. He doesn't make money there. He pays money to Russia.