The Democratic Coalition’s Senior Advisor Scott Dworkin just unearthed a never before seen interview with Eric Trump explaining the crucial importance of Russian money in the family’s failed Trump SoHo Condominium Hotel project.

Dworkin’s finding comes on the eve of a potentially explosive release of the secret criminal docket information about the Trump family’s business partner in Trump SoHo, convicted felon Felix Sater.

An exclusive interview on the website Homes Overseas asked Eric Trump about the business plan behind his family’s luxury brand in early 2009, during the height of the American real estate crash and Great Recession.

At the time, the Trump Organization was a mostly an American venture, but had begun to aggressively and very publicly spread its reach overseas just the year before and with the Trump Panama project.

Here is Eric Trump’s answer about the family’s target buyers for its luxury real estate in an exclusive interview given to the Russian edition of HomesOverseas.ru:

Q: In your projects, do you focus on domestic demand or do you count on foreign investors?

“It depends on the particular project. So, in the New York hotel-condominium Trump SoHo the bulk of buyers are foreigners, among whom there are a lot of Russians.”

Eric Trump 2007 via HomesOverseas.ru

“The fact is that New York is one of the centers of international business and tourism, many foreigners often come here and want to have real estate. Quite a different situation in Chicago, where most buyers are from America. Another example — a golf resort in Scotland is interesting both to local golf lovers, and to Americans who want to play in European fields. Also in the case of the Dubai project — our tower on The Palm Jumeirah will surely attract not only investors from the Persian Gulf countries, but also Europeans, Americans, and representatives of developed Asian states.”

“We very much count on the good demand from the Russians.”

Eric Trump’s above statement — like many subsequent news reports — wholly debunks his father the President’s many statements of denial about having significant Russian business ties.

The Trump Organization went on a golf course buying spree after 2010 after most traditional avenues of financing those properties left the market post-crash, which he told a Golf Magazine reporter.

The Homes Overseas interview with Eric Trump can be traced to early 2009 by reading EXIF data in the photos directly from the interview, as you can see in this image displaying the result. (story continues below)

The following year — soon after Eric Trump spoke about the lower Manhattan tower’s reliance on Russian buyers in the above comments — a series of lawsuits were filed involving the Trump SoHo Condominium Hotel’s developers Bayrock, which ensnared Felix Sater.

By then, Sater had outwardly left the Bayrock development firm to become the Trump Organization’s senior advisor.

But the racketeering lawsuit against Sater and Bayrock is still in the discovery phase in federal court, after he lost a motion to dismiss the case at the end of December 2016.

Bayrock whistleblower Jody Kriss is one of the plaintiffs and told all about Trump’s dirty deal to Bloomberg.

Leaked emails showed how the entire Trump family could be liable for Sater’s alleged acts of racketeering related to bank fraud.

Shortly after President Trump’s inauguration, reports emerged of Sater working to be a secret back-channel diplomat for the Administration — hand carrying a Ukraine “peace plan” aimed at dropping sanctions to the White House — along with Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen.

A few months later, The Stern Facts showed that Felix Sater had advised the Trump Campaign.

Late last year, the New York Times obtained an email from Sater, telling Cohen that he could get all of Putin’s team behind the Trump Campaign which “will get Donald Trump elected.”

The Trump SoHo Hotel project — hyped on NBC’s “The Apprentice” for a multi-year period — failed and went into foreclosure.

But the Trump Organization continued to manage it and earn $3 million annually for keeping its flagging brand on the front door until bought out late last year.