MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell says he has a source who told him Russian oligarchs signed off loans given to President Trump by Deutsche Bank.
"This single source close to Deutsche Bank has told me that the Trump — Donald Trump's loan documents there show that he has co-signers.
That's how he was able to obtain those loans.
And that the co-signers are Russian oligarchs," he said.
O'Donnell later said this source told him that Trump's tax returns reveal "he pays little to no income tax in some years.".
He added that his source said Trump, a longtime real estate businessman, would not have been able to obtain his loans with Deutsche Bank without these co-signers he described as "Russian billionaires close to Vladimir Putin.".
"If true," O'Donnell said, "that would explain every kind word Donald Trump has ever said about Russia and Vladimir Putin. »