How many oligarchs have given you a $55 million tip on a real estate transaction?
Not nearly enough IMO.
$55 million...because he wanted to? Yeah, sure, that tracks.
Trump bought it for 40 and put 25 into it, plus held it for 4 years which is 4 million in taxes so Trump is 69 million into this thing that was appraised at 65 before he bought it.
So there's 26 million for Trump when he sells it for 95.
The Russian started out at 75 but Trump wouldn't take it.
Because Russian oligarchs are notoriously generous?
They gave the Clinton Foundation 140 million and didn't want anything in return right?
So? It's not the price until you close the sale.
The value of something is what someone will pay for it.
That doesn't explain overpaying in the first place. You've got a savvy ruthless oligarch, and a bankrupt real estate developer with a penchant for tacky and an addiction to a certain lifestyle, and the oligarch plays the chump? I don't think so.
He made money AFTER he bulldozed the 60,000 sq ft house. So not a chump. He made money just like Trump did and Liberals can't stand that.
Trump is laundering money for Russians and other kleptocrats.
HOW? Trump makes 26 and pays 20% tax on that so there's 21 million left profit for Trump. Let's say he's going to kick some back to the Russian, how does he do it? And why? there's nothing magic about the money after he's spent it with Trump, if it was dirty before it's still dirty and now everyone knows about it. How do you figure Trump is laundering money for them?
A much more likely scenario is that the Russian is laundering for Trump. Let's say Trump has a bunch of gold that he can't explain how he came by. He could install solid gold toilets in the mansion and say they were gold plated, or just stack the gold up inside a wall so the Russian is really buying 69 million worth of Mansion and 26 million worth of gold that nobody knows about.