“ Trump has said he would like to be the U.S. negotiator in arms talks with the Soviets. "Some people have an ability to negotiate," he says. "It's an art you're basically born with. Either you have it or you don't.
"I feel for the first time in many years we're in a position to negotiate a really good treaty. I've been involved in studying the issue for years. I feel very knowledgable about the issues." And the issue, he says, is not so much the United States vs. the Soviet Union as it is both superpowers against a Third World country which gains nuclear capability. "I've never actually recommended myself as a negotiator," Trump says, "but I think what we need is someone who really knows the issues and knows how to negotiate." (Associated Press, February 24, 1985) ”Trump Credited Roy Cohn for Idea
“ This morning, Trump has a new idea. He wants to talk about the threat of nuclear war. He wants to talk about how the United States should negotiate with the Soviets. He wants to be the negotiator. He says he has never acted on his nuclear concern. But he says that his good friend Roy Cohn, the flamboyant Republican lawyer, has told him this interview is a perfect time to start. [...] He could learn about missiles, quickly, he says. "It would take an hour-and-a-half to learn everything there is to learn about missiles ... I think I know most of it anyway. You're talking about just getting updated on a situation ... You know who really wants me to do this? Roy ... I'd do it in a second." (Washington Post, November 15, 1984) ”1987: Trump Called for Linking Alliances to Cash
“ Donald Trump recently published an impassioned full-page newspaper ad that reported that our friends around the world were "laughing" at us and that the time had come for them to "pay for the protection we extend as allies." (Washington Post, Editorial, October 8, 1987) ”1987: Trump Traveled to Moscow
“ Mr. Trump also said he would leave Friday for Moscow to pursue an invitation to build a hotel across from the Kremlin. […] Of the Moscow project, Mr. Trump said he did not know how large the hotel would be. He plans to be in Moscow for six days as a guest of the Government to examine the site and look into details. He said it would be his first trip to the Soviet Union. The New York developer said the Soviet Government wanted a hotel "with the feel of Trump Tower." (New York Times, July 3, 1987) ”1987: Trump Attended State Department Lunch With Gorbachev
“ That quick meet yesterday at a State Department luncheon in Gorbachev's honor was just one of the almost surreal encounters in the Soviet leader's all-out attempt to reach beyond official Washington to the country at large. [...] The guests included industrialists H. Ross Perot and Donald Trump, ABC journalist Barbara Walters, artist Andrew Wyeth (who sat next to Raisa Gorbachev), Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci, Sens. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.) and Albert Gore (D-Tenn.), Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.), Dobrynin and House Majority Leader Tom Foley (D-Wash.). (Washington Post, December 10, 1987) ”1988: Gorbachev Visited New York City
Trump Excitedly Anticipated Gorbachev Visit to Trump Tower
“ Mikhail S. Gorbachev is tentatively scheduled to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Trump Tower during his trip to New York next week, the Soviet Mission to the United Nations said yesterday, and Donald Trump plans to show Mr. Gorbachev a swimming pool inside a $19 million apartment. (New York Times, December 1, 1988) ”Soviet Officials Denied Plan To Visit Trump Tower
“ Academician Georgi Arbatov, who is a member of Gorbachev's delegation to New York and of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, told a news conference that the appeal for new momentum will be the theme of Gorbachev's speech, which is expected to be his major public statement during a three-day visit that begins with his arrival at Kennedy International Airport at 3 p.m. Tuesday. [...] Arbatov said that Gorbachev has no plans to visit the lavish Trump Tower headquarters of New York real estate developer Donald J. Trump. "I think that's a misunderstanding," said Arbatov. "I don't think that was on the program." (Washington Post, December 6, 1988) ”Trump Got Punked By Gorbachev Imitator
“ Donald Trump, hearing that Mr. Gorbachev was in front of Trump Tower, rushed down from his office to see if the Communist leader had changed his mind back about viewing the Manhattan billionaire's lush capitalist empire. Mr. Trump and his bodyguards wedged their way through the crowd and shook hands with the man who was a dead ringer for Mr. Gorbachev - right down to the distinctive mark on his scalp. As it turned out, it was not the Soviet leader at all, but an actor named Ronald V. Knapp, the winner of a Gorbachev look-alike contest. Mr. Knapp was meandering around New York, from Fifth Avenue to the Soviet Mission to Bloomingdale's, being filmed by television crews from Channel 5. (New York Times, December 7, 1988) ”1996: Trump Explored Moscow Development Deal
“ After five years of a weird, distorted shuffle toward the free market, much of Russia wallows in an economic morass. Like the country's civil society, its new capitalist institutions have only barely taken hold. But in many ways, Moscow 1996 is a boomtown. [...] Donald Trump has swooped into town to explore the possibilities for a Trump Tower East. (Washington Post, December 27, 1996) ”1999: Trump Denounced Boris Yeltsin
Trump was sharply critical of Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first post-communist president.
“ Donald Trump said yesterday he would not rule out a U.S. military first strike to stem North Korea's missile production. The potential Reform Party presidential candidate also called Russian President Boris Yeltsin "a disaster." [...] Trump complained that Russia is "out of control" with a leader who is "a disaster." He said U.S. aid "would probably stop if it were me, until they straightened out their act." He contends Russia is using the aid "on developing more nuclear" weapons. (Washington Post, November 29, 1999) ”Miscellaneous
Trump and Soviet Journalists
“ Fireworks over the East River have always been a magnet for Malcolm S. Forbes and his sumptuous 126-foot yacht, the Highlander. The tradition continued Wednesday night, when Mr. Forbes treated 111 guests, including a group of visiting Soviet journalists, to a cruise around lower Manhattan and ringside seats for the annual July 4 sky show. [...] Among the guests, who boarded the yacht to the sound of "Yankee Doodle" played on a bagpipe, were Louis S. Auchincloss; Clay Felker and Gail Sheehy; Henry A. Grunwald; Robert M. Morgenthau and his wife, Lucinda Franks; Dr. and Mrs. Paul Marks; Louise Melhado; Mr. and Mrs. John Pierrepont; John T. Sargent; Laurence A. and Billie Tisch; Donald and Ivana Trump, and three generations of Forbeses. [...] The Soviet journalists, who had been invited here by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, seemed more interested in the scene along the dock at 23d Street and the East River, where the Highlander tied up for the fireworks. Noting the contrast between the well-dressed guests on the yacht and the masses of ordinary New Yorkers lining the dock, Vitaly Kobysh, a columnist for the weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta, took out his camera and said, "This is the best shot of the trip: the two worlds." (New York Times, July 6, 1984)
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Alexander Shnaider
Tamir Sapir
Felix Sater
Michael Cohen
Alan Garten
Michael Flynn
Paul Manafort
Jeff Sessions
Carter Page
Rex Tillerson
Roger Stone
Eduard Shifrin
Midland Resources (1994)
Vasily Khmelnytsky
Michael Bleyzer
Shnaider and Co
Rinat Akhmetov
Victor Pinchuk
Leib Waldman
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