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The Russians bailed him out and he’s been in their pocket ever since. In this particular case, that’s why the number of bankruptcies matter. In general, I agre

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• bduerst 7y ago
  Not sure why you're being downvoted, because you are correct. The president's repeated bankruptcies and inability to get a bank loan forced him to get funding from Russian oligarchs through Deutsche bank's private equity arm: https://www.wsj.com/articles/banks-give-documents-possibly-linked-to-trump-to-investigators-11565256601 https://www.wsj.com/articles/banks-give-documents-possibly-l... There's a good Planet Money podcast on it as well: https://www.npr.org/2019/05/22/725893104/episode-914-trump-and-deutsche-a-long-affair https://www.npr.org/2019/05/22/725893104/episode-914-trump-a... It is also why the Trump family has preemptively sued Deutsche bank in an attempt to seal records and obstruct any investigation.