Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for President. The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump campaign did nothing wrong - no collusion!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 16, 2018

He ran for President in 2012 and dropped out, then went to Moscow in 2013, ostensibly for the Miss Universe pageant.

Let’s guess what happened next.

My guess (and this is just a guess!) he tried to run a scam on Russian mobsters, because he is a scamming scammer who scams folks. Russian mobsters don’t like to be scammed, but instead of busting every bone in his body they decided that he could be useful to them.