Committee discusses possibility Russian money was funneled through Trumps exclusive golf course in
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Source: Independent Irish News
Committee discusses possibility Russian money was funneled through Trump’s exclusive golf course in Doonbeg
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"But because the Irish courses and the Scottish courses are under UK, you know, Anglo corporate law, they have - they file financial statements. So we were able to get the financial statements. And they don’t, on their face, show Russian involvement, but what they do show is enormous amounts of capital flowing into these projects from unknown sources and - or at least on paper it says it’s from The Trump Organisation, but it’s hundreds of millions of dollars.
"And these golf course are just, you know, they’re sinks. They don’t actually make any money. So, you know, if you’re familiar with Donald Trump’s finances and the litigation over whether he’s really a billionaire, you know, there’s good reason to believe he doesn’t have enough money to do this and that he would have had to have outside financial support for these things."
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Alan Garten, the Trump Organisation’s chief counsel, told financial newswire Reuters that the deals Mr Simpson referenced primarily involve properties to which Mr Trump licensed his name, rather than owning, developing or selling them.
"These accusations are completely reckless and unsubstantiated," Mr Garten said. "These issues have nothing to do with the scope of the investigation" by the House intelligence committee, Mr Garten said.
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Of course that explains hundreds of millions of dollars flowing through these properties... silly us for suspecting anything.
