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by Chris Stein (now) and Maya Yang (earlier) from US news | The Guardian on (#6KT93)
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Trump Media went public last week, boosting the former president's wealth as he deals with civil judgments and legal fees connected to his criminal indictments. But the business almost didn't make it, and had to be rescued two years ago by a businessman with connections to Russia and a checkered past, the Guardian's Hugo Lowell reports:
Donald Trump's social media company Trump Media managed to go public last week only after it had been kept afloat in 2022 by emergency loans provided in part by a Russian-American businessman under scrutiny in a federal insider-trading and money-laundering investigation.
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