The election campaign of US President Donald Trump was funded by Ukrainian oligarchs. This fact was the focus of the special prosecutor Robert Mueller, who is investigating the "Russian case" against the head of the White House. In the reports of Trump Organization, which until 2017.

headed by Trump himself and who was also involved in his election campaign, found evidence that $ 150 thousand. Viktor Ivanovich Pinchuk, the Ukrainian billionaire, donated to the electoral fund of the presidential candidate. Muller asked the company for documents about the donation, as well as electronic correspondence and other correspondence with a number of Russians whose names are not mentioned, reports The New York Times referring to its sources. The money received from the Ukrainian oligarch, the son-in-law of the second president Leonid Kuchma, became a kind of reward for Trump's 20-minute speech at the Kiev conference "Yalta European Strategy" in video communication mode in 2015. In his speech, the billionaire mercilessly criticized the then US President Barack Obama. According to the initial agreement, there was no talk about the fee for the performance. However, the very next day after the conference, according to the American newspaper, Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen contacted Pinchuk through political consultant Douglas Skeen with a request to transfer Trump Organization $ 150,000.

Pinchuk granted this request. His contribution was the largest one-time donation to the election fund in 2015, not counting the money received from Trump himself. American experts point out that the whole story is very bad smells. "The payment from Pinchuk is curious, because it comes during the campaign, belongs to a foreigner and looks like an attempt to buy influence," said former employee of the US Internal Revenue Service Markus Owens. The Trump Organization stated that the donation of a metallurgical tycoon can not be considered a kind of bribe for lobbying the interests of Kiev oligarchs. After all, the donation was made in 2015. , "when there were several presidential candidates from the Republicans and there was in no way guaranteed that Trump would be a candidate in 2016". Thus, the president's entourage wants to remove from him suspicions that his actions in favor of Ukraine as head of state are motivated by personal financial considerations. But the prosecutor does not seem to believe this much. It is possible that the attention of US law enforcement agencies will subsequently completely switch from a fictitious "Russian influence" to Trump's policy on the Ukrainian track. Trump's personal lawyer refused to talk with the American media on this topic.

But it is possible that in the very near future he will have to talk about this with investigators. At least in the house and office of Cohen, with the approval of Robert Mueller, searches have already been carried out. Note that the connections between Trump and Pinchuk are not exhausted by this incident. In March last year it became known that the Ukrainian oligarch hired an ex-pretender for an important position in the US Security Council Monica Crowley. The Security Council was pushed by none other than Trump.