That same year, during the completion of the woeful Trump Soho, he met with Russian investors at Trump Tower in another unfruitful bid. In 2007, Trump tried again, on a visit to sell vodka and attend the Moscow Millionaire Fair. Trump never broke ground, but during the visit he made connections with the development company Bayrock Group, which would result in Trump Soho, and a mob-tinged Russian connection, Felix Sater, who would become crucial to later Trump Moscow talks.Ģ005-2008: Trump teamed up with Sater to visit an abandoned pencil factory along the Moscow River, with potential for condos, a hotel, and commercial space. But he had never been “as impressed with the potential of a city as I have been with Moscow.” At the conference, Trump announced a plan to invest $250 million in Russian real estate, and tag his name on two high-end residential buildings. “I’ve seen cities all over the world,” Trump said in a news conference at the time. His room was almost certainly bugged.ġ996: Trump went to Russia for an “exploratory trip,” registering his trademark in the country and exploring options for upmarket condos near a former Soviet Olympic stadium. He stayed at the Lenin suite in the National Hotel near the Red Square, run by the state agency for tourism. He was treated as an intelligence target while in Russia: the KGB helped smooth out the paperwork for his visit in coordination with a mid-80s effort to recruit more American sources, looking for powerful men who had a “habit of having affairs with women on the side.” Though the project stalled, Trump had a lovely time in Moscow. So, what is the history of Trump Tower Moscow, and its significance to Robert Mueller’s team?ġ987: Trump first considered the hotel during a 1987 trip to the Soviet capital. Twenty years - and a few failed Russian hotel bids - later, he made a promise in a 2007 court deposition: “We will be in Moscow at some point.” Now, that dream of Russian hospitality is turning nightmarish, as Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen stated in federal court on Thursday that he had engaged in talks to license a tower in Moscow deep into the 2016 campaign, potentially exposing the president to charges of perjury.Īs the special counsel investigation heats back up, the task of pinning down the significance of an individual detail in a sprawling inquiry has only grown more challenging. As early as 1987, in The Art of the Deal, Trump imagined “a large luxury hotel across the street from the Kremlin in partnership with the Soviet government.” For at least three decades, Donald Trump has dreamed of a hotel stamped with his gilded name near Moscow’s Red Square.
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