What secrets will Mueller find when he investigates the President’s foreign deals?
Special counsel Robert Mueller has begun to examine Trump’s real-estate deals and other business dealings, including some that have no obvious link to Russia.
It would be impossible to gain a full understanding of the various points of contact between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign without scrutinizing many of these deals.
Trump's business has had a pattern of working with partners who exploited their proximity to political power.
The New Yorker’s Adam Davidson highlights one particularly troublesome deal -- a plan to build a Trump Tower in Batumi, a city on the Black Sea in the Republic of Georgia, for which Trump was reportedly paid a million dollars. The deal involved bank fraud and money laundering; and intertwined his company with a Kazakh oligarch who has direct links to Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin. As a result, Putin and his security services have access to information that could put them in a position to blackmail Trump.
Trump may want to get rid of Mueller not just because he’s getting closer to finding possible collusion with Putin in the 2016 election, but because Mueller is getting closer to a lot of corrupt practices on the way to that finding.
By Adam Davidson
