It isn’t a secret that the Trump Organization has long been entwined with Russian business interests: “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of our assets,” Donald Trump Jr. told a real-estate conference in 2008. It isn’t a secret that Mr. Trump’s campaign was curiously studded by figures with deep business ties to Russian or pro-Russian figures, including Paul Manafort, Rick Gates and Carter Page. It isn’t a secret that businessmen from Russia and other former Soviet states have been major investors in marquee projects such as the Trump Soho in New York and the Trump hotel in Toronto.
All this has been the subject of fascinating if inconclusive reporting, most recently by James Henry in the American Interest. Peter Schweizer, the author of “Clinton Cash,” also recently warned that he sees parallels between the Clinton Foundation and the Trump Organization.
If Mr. Trump wants to dispel the nagging suspicion that his views on Russia are driven by less-than-honest motives, he can begin by telling us what he knows about his Russia ties that the rest of us still don’t.
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