During the press conference, Trump repeated “I have nothing to do with Russia” five times.1321 He stated that “the closest [he] came to Russia” was that Russians may have purchased a home or condos from him.1322 He said that after he held the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow in 2013 he had been interested in working with Russian companies that “wanted to put a lot of money into developments in Russia” but “it never worked out.”1323 He explained, “[f]rankly, I didn’t want to do it for a couple of different reasons. But we had a major developer . . . that wanted to develop property in Moscow and
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