Inside Trumps financial ties to Russia and his unusual flattery of Vladimir Putin

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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 Trump’s fifth attempt at such a venture. And Trump seemed energized by his interactions with Russia’s financial elite at the pageant and a glitzy after-party in a Moscow nightclub.

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=.c31283b9dfe1

Trumps 2013 visit with the beauty pageant getting his foot in the door with Putin trying to bring in a Trump motel was sucking up the way billionaires play. Now you have ExxonMobils sanctions that could be lifted to help Putins $500 billion deal with Rex, his new right hand man! Russian Oil giant had another $500 Billion deal in oil puts a 1 trillion deal in flux until trump and Putin can work out a agreement that could bring a Trump hotel to Moscow. I can see why Trump loves Putin, its not politics or country its Business. This deal could set the trump family with likes of the Kennedy's decades ago...... with boot legging and stocks.