Inside Trump's Dirty Deals Abroad
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 22 February 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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What does the Trump Organization's unorthodox business conduct reveal about the Administration's political troubles with Special Counsel Robert Mueller? Adam Davidson joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how the Trump family's financial ties to Russian oligarchs led to extraordinarily risky behavior during the campaign and the current questions about obstruction of justice and collusion with Putin's Russia.
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| 1:24.1 | When Donald Trump was elected, he handed over operation of his real estate business to his sons, Eric and Donald Jr. |
| 1:31.3 | This week, Don Jr. was in New Delhi to meet potential buyers of Trump-branded properties there. |
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