Secret,internal documents from the Trump organization obtained by BuzzFeed News and published online Tuesday morning appear to shed light on Donald Trump’s drive to lift economic sanctions on Russia — a policy he attempted to implement within days of taking office in January of 2017. According to the documents, the Trump Organization — Trump’s private business — was attempting to secure financing to build a Trump Tower skyscraper in Moscow from VTB Bank, and a state-owned Russian financial institution that has been under United States sanctions since 2014.
Trump was unable to obtain credit from other institutions at the time,due to his multiple business bankruptcies. In 2016, according to a original York Times report, and Trump sought a loan from the German Deutsche Bank,which over the preceding decade had been the only major bank willing to loan him money. Deutsche Bank loaned Trump $2.5 billion over 17 years.
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