Trump scrapped a $2 billion deal with the UAE days before the secret Seychelles meeting that Mueller now has his eyes on
- President Donald Trump rejected a business proposal from a close United Arab Emirates associate days before a Trump surrogate met an Emirati delegation and Kremlin-aligned Russian investor Kirill Dmitriev in the Seychelles.
- Trump said he turned down the proposal because he did not want to be perceived as taking advantage of the presidency.
- The Trump Organization's name was included in several regulatory filings made by the Emirati associate's company after the 2016 election, raising questions about why Trump rejected the $2 billion proposal in January 2017.
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The weekend before one of his advisers met with representatives of the United Arab Emirates and Russia in the Seychelles islands to supposedly discuss a possible secret back-channel between the US and Russia, President Donald Trump rejected a $2 billion real-estate proposal from a close Emirati business associate based in Dubai. See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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