

President Trump takes questions from reporters before boarding Marine One (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

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— An ice-blue 14-story office tower called Ducat Place III is the building that President Trump might have constructed here, with help from a business friend named Howard Lorber who came with him to scout the market in 1996. But like so many other Trump adventures in Russia, this one proved a tantalizing but futile dead end.



The Trump International Beach Resort in Sunny Isles. (Angel Valentin/For The Washington Post)



Donald Trump Jr. arrives at Trump Tower in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Reuters)



Russian businessman Aras Agalarov, Miss Universe 2013 Gabriela Isler and Donald Trumpat the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, Russia. (Irina Bujor/AP)

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