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    Trump's Business Dealings Come Back to Haunt Him

    A failed attempt to start a development in Moscow—which the president has denied—shows the dangers of intertwining business and politics so closely.
    by David A. Graham Aug 29, 2017 6 minutes
    Source: Brendan McDermid / Reuters

    Donald Trump the man has always been indistinguishable from Donald Trump the business, and since winning the election last November, both have been indistinguishable from Donald Trump the president.

    That creates a range of problems, from the legal to the ethical to the logistical. In the latest instance, the porous boundary between Trump’s business and political lives is a new front in the investigation into his ties to Russia. Even as Trump was running for president in 2015, the Trump Organization was continuing a years-long effort to build a tower in Moscow.

    Central to the effort were Felix Sater, a colorful Russian figure who had worked with Trump on Trump Soho, a debacle of a development in New York City, in addition to having done shadowy work for the U.S. government and having mob ties and a history of securities fraud; and his childhood friend Michael Cohen, a Trump attorney and hanger-on.

    “I know how to play this and we will get it done,” Sater wrote to Cohen in November 2015, in reported by . “Buddy

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