Coincidences Pile Up Regarding President Trump and Russia

UPDATE: Rybolovlev's return flight occurred Sunday evening., Miami to Berne, Switzerland. Screen capture from www.flightaware.com is included at the end of this post.

New update, Sunday, February 12, 2016, 8:42 pm PST: The return flight for M-KATE has disappeared from the Flight Aware website. The screen capture at the bottom of this post appears to be the last information available. It is highly unusual for a flight track to disappear from Flight Aware. This is a developing story.

​Donald Trump bought a mansion in Palm Beach, Florida in 2004. The property was auctioned for $41 million, according according to property records obtained by CNN. In 2008 he sold the mansion for $95 million.
 
CNN Money reported on July 27, 2016, that then-candidate Trump bragged about the great deal he got on the mansion:
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"What do I have to do with Russia? You know the closest I came to Russia, I bought a house a number of years ago in Palm Beach, Florida... for $40 million and I sold it to a Russian for $100 million including brokerage commissions."

The deed on the deal shows Trump Properties as the seller and County Road Property LLC as the buyer. The real buyer of the property was Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, which Rybolovlev admitted through a spokesman in 2008. His real estate agent verified this information to CNN Money in July.
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Ryobvovlev is the owner of Uralkali, a Russian potash fertilizer producer and exporter. He is worth a reported $7.3 billion, according to Forbes magazine.

​While many critics have accused Trump of having ties to Russia’s government and money from Russian oligarchs, he has repeatedly denied these allegations. He has stated that the only connection he has had with Russia as a businessman is the deal described here. (This is in contradiction to the fact of Russian sponsorship of the Miss Universe pageant, which Trump owned and which was held in Moscow, in 2013.)
 
Why does this matter this weekend, when NSA director Michael Flynn is under fire for reportedly speaking about lifting sanctions on Russia, on December 29, 2016, with the Russian ambassador to the U.S., making Vice President Pence either a liar to the American people, a dupe for a rogue member of the Trump team, or a tool of a duplicitous Trump administration?
 
Yesterday, the jet owned by Rybolovlev, owner of the mansion bought from Trump in 2008, tail number M-KATE, landed in Florida. Rybolovlev was photographed on the golf course with President Trump, who was playing golf in Jupiter, Florida, as part of a working vacation with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe.
 
Information on the jet, from www.privatejetfan.com and www.flightaware.com, is shown below.

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President Trump posted a photo of the golf outing on his Twitter account.

​​Conservative commentator Louise Mensch published the photograph on her Twitter account and pointed out that it appears to show Rybolovlev playing golf just behind President Trump on the course. The photo is shown below. Mensch added a Russian flag over the head of Rybolovlev. (Reason and Justice added the circle and arrow pointing to a clear photo of Rybolovlev from Wealth-X, a global wealth information-provider.

While President Trump and Prime Minister Abe golfed, according to USA Today, reporters were kept in a room with blacked-out windows so they could not see what was happening on the links.
 
All of the connections are circumstantial at this point. Still, it seems curious that a Russian oligarch who has previously passed money to Trump in a shell real estate transaction would have been on the golf course at the same time as the President, and that reporters and photographers were kept away.
 
Another question for the weekend: Where was Michael Flynn? Was he in Washington, answering questions from Congress about his calls with the Russian ambassador, or was he in Florida with the President and the Russian oligarch? This is an important question for Monday’s press briefing with Press Secretary Sean Spicer.
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The USA Today article, with photographs of the blacked out windows, can be found here.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/02/11/black-plastic-covers-windows-blocking-reporters-views-trump-golfing/97787920/
 
A Palmer Report article about the “coincidence” of Rybolovlev flying in to Florida on the same weekend as Trump can be found here.
https://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/donald-trump-meet-russian-oligarch-today-media-blacked/1491/
 
Information about Rybolovlev can be found here.
http://www.wealthx.com/articles/2015/dmitry-rybolovlev/
 
Information about Rybolovlev’s jet ownership and tail number can be found here.
http://www.private-jet-fan.com/russian_jet_owners.html

Information on the flight track of Rybolovlev’s jet can be found at Flight Aware, here.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/MKATE
 
The CNN Money article detailing the sale of the Palm Beach mansion and more than $40 million profit for Trump can be found here.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/27/news/donald-trump-russian-deal-mansion/
 
The Forbes profile of Dmitry Rybolovlev can be found here.
http://www.forbes.com/profile/dmitry-rybolovlev/
 

UPDATE: MKATE (Rybolovlev's jet) set out on a return trip to Switzerland Sunday evening. So - total time in U.S. - a little over 24 hours, all on a weekend. Marselles, France --> Miami, Florida --> Berne, Switzerland on a weekend. Why? And where is NSA Director Flynn? And why did the White House press corps have to hole up in a room with blacked-out windows to give a golf game privacy?