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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
You of course realise that Putin funnels all that crap through deutsche bank, the lawyers would be, for a massive fee, happy to look at the unexplained billions coming through there or Cyprus or the Grand Bahamas and sign off on 'its not from Russia' when it patently is.
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As well, the letter admits that anything like condo-sales would not be covered by the scope of this review. And we already know that Trump has received a huge but unspecified amount of income from Russia through those channels.
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/...rump-property/
That is, potentially, one of the major ways that Putin and his Russian oligarch network have bought influence over Trump. Incidentally, this letter predates the Reuters expose I linked here, so maybe that's part of the reason it was never released until now: it quickly became obsolete in light of the connections highlighted in that expose. But now Trump's looking for anything to put out fires so why not just toss it out there?