Contributor Business Contributing Editor of Investigations, Forbes magazine
Emin Agalarov, Aras Agalarov and Donald Trump arrive for the Miss Universe 2013 beauty pageant final
at Crocus City Hall in Moscow, Russia. ITAR-TASS/ Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS via Getty Images
A new report from the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence offers a damning portrait of the people Donald Trump chose as his partners for potential projects in Russia. They include individuals with alleged connections to the mob, to Vladimir Putin and to human trafficking.
The group would comprise an extraordinary list of associates for any international businessman, let alone for the sitting president of the United States.
Trump Organization representatives did not respond to requests for comment. In 2016, Trump Organization lawyer Alan Garten insisted that the business conducts thorough due diligence on its outside partners. “We do extensive vetting on everyone we do business with,” he told Forbes at the time. “We do background checks on an international level. We do background checks on a local level. We check every available database commonly used. We use outside experts who specialize in this area. And that’s in addition to looking at the deal itself. So extensive vetting goes on.”
Doesn’t seem like it. Here are the details on the people connecting Trump to Russia.
If Forbes Magazine is publishing stuff like this in mid-August on an*election year - information that was known to the Wall street cognoscenti all along - it is clear that the Donald has served his term of usefulness in the thesetical process, and that the Bankers of Wall Street have embarked on the process of dumping Trump.