"Donald Risk": Unveiling Trump's Financial Ties with Deutsche Bank

Inside Trump's shadowy financial empire: A fact-driven timeline, key players exposed, and new avenues to unravel the unanswered mysteries behind the Deutsche Bank and Russian connections.

This is a collaboration with DEEPER LOOK with Michael Sellers who will be expanding on some aspects of these findings.

In July 2008, as the U.S. real-estate market floundered, Donald J. Trump sold his Palm Beach mansion to a Russian billionaire for an astonishing $95 million – more than double what he paid just a few years prior (Maison de L'Amitie - Wikipedia). Around the same time, a single institution on Wall Street was keeping Trump’s troubled empire afloat: Deutsche Bank, which had already extended him hundreds of millions in credit when virtually every other bank had deemed “Donald risk” too high (Trump Received Around $2 Billion in Loans From Deutsche Bank: Report - Business Insider). These two storylines – Trump’s extraordinary Deutsche Bank lifeline and a surge of Russian money into his ventures.

1. Chronological List of Facts – Key Events & Transactions

• 1998: Facing a wall of refusals from U.S. lenders after a string of business failures, Trump turns to Deutsche Bank. That year…