The Oligarch Files: Did a billionaire fertiliser baron bail out Trump by paying millions over the odds for this gaudy pleasure palace? - Daily Mail

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The Oligarch Files: Did a billionaire fertiliser baron bail out Trump by paying millions over the odds for this gaudy pleasure palace? And is THIS the Russian connection that could return to haunt the presidency?

    Trumps’s election campaign was bedevilled by allegations of links with Kremlin
    Story of Maison de l’Amitie is example of Donald Trump’s connections to Moscow
    Close scrutiny of The Donald’s business history now suggests that if there is a real concern about Russian connections, it may instead lie in hard financial facts

By James S Henry For The Mail On Sunday
Published: 17:42 EST, 11 March 2017 | Updated: 22:17 EST, 11 March 2017

Last summer, the bulldozers moved in to demolish America’s most expensive private home.

The Maison de l’Amitie, a gaudy 33,000 sq ft French Regency-style mansion on six prime acres with 475 ft of waterfront in Florida’s Palm Beach was subdivided and the first lot sold at a substantial loss.

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We'll see about this. Posting it here. And it is the Daily Mail after all.

[TomSea]

Probably nothing to this, excerpt:

This Palm Beach Post story is peak Trump-Russia media frenzy
By Callum Borchers March 10 at 12:55 PM

What the article really represents is how intense — yet inconclusive — the Trump-Russia media frenzy has become, with news outlets big and small competing for scooplets that might or might not advance the biggest story in politics. For the White House, it is another reminder that every interaction the president has ever had with a Russian will be sniffed out by the press for the faintest whiff of electoral collusion.

Trump himself called attention to the mansion sale when he said during a news conference in summer that “I have nothing to do with Russia” and claimed — while boasting about his profit — that the deal represented “the closest I came to Russia.” Trump paid $41.35 million for the seaside estate in 2004 and sold it in 2008 for $95 million to Dmitry Rybolovlev, a fertilizer magnate and majority owner of the AS Monaco soccer team.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/03/10/this-palm-beach-post-story-is-peak-trump-russia-media-frenzy/?utm_term=.111863b7da14