Donald Trump, facing financial trouble after failed casinos and business ventures, gets invited by the Soviet government to collaborate 1987

Trump had taken major losses with his casino’s in Atlantic city and other failed companies. So he was in desperate need of a different finance source. And this was around the time that russian oligarchies were looking to diversify their money given the growing instability of the country and you had Donald Trump needing that cash. In the following years, Trump sold roughly one third of his properties to individuals or companies affiliated with Russia.