Why would Russian oligarchs or any other scumbags from other countries want to do business with 45?

[allgood33]

His brand will be worthless after everything is over and he is out of office. What am I missing?

[StarryNite]

1. Because he's stupid

and can be easily played.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Why would they want to buy influence from the USA? And so cheaply too?

[secondwind]

3. Some oligarchs purchased very expensive real estate from Trump in the U.S., trying to get rid of the

$$$ because of impending divorces...

Also known as money laundering.

[dlk]

4. There is the Money Laundering Piece in Trump's Association with Russian Oligarchs

[Baltimike]

5. It ALREADY WAS worthless..no us bank would back him

and if your money isn't here in the USA, where's your loyalty lie?

[Roland99]

6. Need an easy mark to help with money laundering from drugs, arms, etc

[rufus dog]

7. Putin wants the USA weakened

He has taken all the money he can out of Russia, so next step it to steal money from other countries. He needs NATO weakened, he needs the US weakened, he needs Europe, Canada, all democracies weakened.

Best way to do it is to take out the big fish.

[brush]

8. Yep, it's over for his brand now that he's been exposed. He was useful for money laundering...

with his casinos and then his hotels/condos here in this country, which is why the Russians strung him along on the Moscow hotel.

It doesn't do the oligarchs any good to buy a unit in Russia when they want to get their money out of Russia.

He was also a candidate for Putin's long range plan as president. It worked but has sorta backfired on Putin and trump as the investigation of the stolen election is closing in.

Too bad, and the same goes for the czarina and her brothers and their businesses. They will all be in the dump soon too.

[CentralMass]

9. tRump refused to implement financial sanctions agsinst Russia.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/us/politics/trump-cohen-russia-sanctions.html

Did a Real Estate Project Influence Trump’s View of Russia Sanctions?
"
WASHINGTON — In late March 2016, steaming toward the Republican nomination and with his aides still secretly in talks for a real estate deal in Russia, Donald J. Trump made a lengthy case for giving President Vladimir V. Putin what he wanted most: relief from American-led sanctions for his annexation of Crimea.

“It didn’t seem to me like anyone else cared, other than us,” Mr. Trump said in an interview then with The New York Times, his first lengthy description of what his foreign policy would look like if he was elected. The United States, he said, was “the least affected by what happens with Ukraine because we’re the farthest away.” And countries that were closer — Germany, for example — did not seem to care much.

His argument took on a new relevance on Thursday, after his former lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the state of the negotiations over the real estate project’s fate. If Mr. Cohen’s latest version of events is proved true, Mr. Trump was publicly offering a conciliatory and possibly self-interested policy gesture to Moscow as he continued to seek a ..."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-sanctions/trump-administration-holds-off-on-new-russia-sanctions-despite-law-idUSKBN1FI2V7
Trump administration holds off on new Russian Sanctions"

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/388364-senate-dems-call-investigation-into-why-trump-has-not-issued-russia
Senate Dems call for probe into why Trump has not issued Russia sanctions
"A trio of key Democratic senators is calling on agency watchdogs to investigate why the Trump administration has not fully implemented mandated sanctions on Russia.

The lawmakers sent a letter Friday asking the inspectors general of the State Department, Treasury Department and the intelligence community to examine the administration's failure to impose the financial penalties on Russia."

[OnDoutside]

10. Money laundering and then sanctions lifted.

[yardwork]

11. Putin thought that Trump and the Republicans would lift the sanctions.

Trump failed. He's fairly useless to Putin now, although disrupting the globe and wrecking our relationship with all our allies is also helpful to Putin.

China is benifiting greatly.