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Donald Trump on Vladimir Putin

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2007 - Feb 13, 2016

Feb 17, 2016 - 2020

"I know Putin."
- July 13, 2015

"I don't know Putin."
Oct 9, 2016 -

"I spoke…with President Putin."
- May 27, 2014

"I've never spoken to him."
July 27, 2016 -

"I met him."
- Oct 17, 2013

"I didn't meet him."
July 31, 2016 -

"Yes I met Putin."
- July 13, 2015

"I never met Putin."
July 27, 2016 -

"I do have a relationship with him."
- Nov 9, 2013

"I don't have a relationship with him."
July 31, 2016 -

"The relationship is great."
- March 18, 2015

"I have no relationship with him."
Feb 17, 2016 -

"Putin even sent me a…beautiful present."
- Nov 10, 2015

"I wouldn't know him from Adam."
July 31, 2016 -

"He was so nice and so everything."
- April 12, 2014

"I didn't know the President. There was nobody to collude with."
July 16, 2018 -

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Donald Trump on Russia

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1987 - June 2016

July 2016 – 2020

"I know Russia well."
- May 5, 2016

"I know nothing about Russia."
Oct 9, 2016 -

"I've done a lot of business with the Russians."
- Oct 17, 2013

"I have no deals that could happen in Russia, because we've stayed away."
Jan 11, 2017 -

"I have a great relationship with many Russians."
- Nov 2013

"I have nothing to do with Russia, folks. I'll give you a written statement."
Oct 24, 2016 -

"I know the Russians better than anybody."
- 2014

"I have nothing to do with Russia. I told you."
Feb 16, 2017 -

"I was in Moscow…with the top level people."
- Sept 21, 2015

"Zero, I have nothing to do with Russia."
July 27, 2016 -

"I spoke to all of Putin's people."
- March 6, 2014

"I have nothing to do with Russia whatsoever."
July 27, 2016 -

"I got to meet all of Russia’s leaders."
- June 18, 2015

"I have nothing to do with Russia. I never did."
July 20, 2018 -

"I was…with…oligarchs and generals, and top of the government [Russians]."
- Oct 17, 2013

"I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA…NO NOTHING!"
Jan 11, 2017 -

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Donald Trump on American Exceptionalism

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2013 - 2015

2020

Donald Trump on American Exceptionalism Then

"I don’t like the term."
- April 30, 2015

"We must teach our children that America is an exceptional…nation."
Aug 31, 2020 -

"I never liked it."
- April 30, 2015

"Teach American Exceptionalism."
Aug 23, 2020 -

"I don’t think we should say it."
- April 30, 2015

"We must teach our children that America is an exceptional…nation."
Aug 31, 2020 -

"I think you’re insulting the world."
- April 30, 2015

"Teach American Exceptionalism."
Aug 23, 2020 -

"It’s very insulting."
- April 30, 2015

"We must teach our children that America is an exceptional…nation."
Sept 13, 2013 -

"I actually think it’s a very dangerous term to use."
- April 30, 2015

"Teach American Exceptionalism."
Aug 23, 2020 -

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Donald Trump Jr. on His Russian Contacts

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March 2017

July 2017

"No meetings that were set up."
- March, 2017

"We had a set up meeting in June 2016."
July 9, 2017 -

"No discussion of Russia-related policy."
- March, 2017

"The Russian laywer mentioned the Russia-related Magnitsky Act."
July 9, 2017 -

"No meetings where I was representing the campaign."
- March, 2017

"Obviously I'm the first person on a campaign to ever take a meeting…about an opponent."
July 10, 2017 -

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Who is Alex Sapir

Alex Sapir is a Russian-born New York City real estate tycoon and business associate of Donald Trump. He is the son of the late Soviet-born real estate tycoon Tamir Sapir, who left the Soviet Union in 1973 and opened an electronics store in New York City in 1976 that “became a wholesale outlet for Soviet diplomats, KGB agents and Politburo members.” After the fall of the Soviet Union the elder Sapir parlayed Soviet contacts he had made in New York into a vast real estate empire, rumored to have been fueled by Russian mafia connections and money laundering – rumors that he repeatedly denied. Alex Sapir took over the Sapir Organization when his father was reportedly no longer able to run it. ¹²³