"Follow the money!"
-- Hal Holbrook as confidential Washington Post source, then called "Deep Thoat" and now known as FBI Associate Director Mark Felt, in "All the President's Men"
Trump lawyers say he had no Russian income -- except for that big deal in Florida
via @learyreports
WASHINGTON - The White House on Friday released a letter from President Trump's lawyers asserting he has no income from Russian sources -- except the $95 million he received from the sale of a Palm Beach estate and proceeds from a Miss Universe pagent in Moscow.
"What do I have to do with Russia?” Trump said last summer in Doral. “You know the closest I came to Russia, I bought a house a number of years ago in Palm Beach … for $40 million, and I sold it to a Russian for $100 million.”
The letter released Friday shows Trump acquired the estate in 2005 for $41 million and sold it to Russian billionaire for $95 million.
Here's a past story the Miami Herald ran on the deal.
--ALEX LEARY, Tampa Bay Times
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