Like the tower in Moscow, a number of Trump projects have never come to fruition. Over the course of his real estate career, Trump has planned to build towers in Tampa, Philadelphia, and Rio de Janeiro.
Though some of these projects have been mired in conflict, none compare to the Trump Tower Moscow scandal.
On January 20, Giuliani quoted Trump as saying that the tower's negotiations were "going on from the day I announced to the day I won." A day later, he said his comments were "hypothetical."
Text messages acquired by BuzzFeed show a conversation between Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, and his associate, Felix Sater, that suggested the project had the green light by May 2016 — almost a year after Trump declared his candidacy for president.
"Let's make this happen and build a Trump Moscow," Sater wrote in an email to Cohen. “And possibly fix relations between the countries by showing everyone that commerce [and] business are much better and more practical than politics."