Hi everybody I'm Brittany Lewis a reporter here at Forbes. Joining me now is my

Forbes colleague Money and Politics reporter Kyle Con Mullins.

Kyle thanks so much for joining me.

Always great to be here, Brittany. Thanks for having me. You have some interesting reporting on former President Donald Trump and his finances.

You're reporting how Trump made millions as partners ditched his brand.

So you set the scene at the start of your Forbes piece,

the summer of 2017, out front of a Trump Manhattan property.

Take us there.

Yep.

So, summer 2017, you might be thinking,

this is one of Trump's properties in Midtown Manhattan, his famous Trump Tower, one of his big hotels.

This is another one of his hotels.

He used to own a hotel called Trump Soho, down in the Soho neighborhood of Manhattan.

And at this hotel, a group of protesters

dressed up in Russian army uniforms,

played the Russian National Anthem,

flew a Russian national flag, and projected an image of Vladimir Putin on the side of the hotel

giving a thumbs up and saying happy to help bro. This was a reference to the

alleged help that the Russian government gave Donald Trump in getting elected in 2016.

This was a kind of a poke, trying to poke him, trying to make him mad about these Russian connections.

Regardless, you know, the rejection came down, but Trump's name came off the hotel pretty soon afterwards.

And I think that this

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