While running for president, one of Donald Trump’s businesses tried to build a big, new real estate development in Moscow and his company cozied up to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime to make it happen.

This has been brought to light, after years of obfuscation by Trump adherents, by a guilty plea from the president’s shady former lawyer. But Trump has waved it off. “Oh, I get it! I am a very good developer,” Trump tweeted about the story, “I decide to run for president & continue to run my business — very legal & very cool, talked about it on the campaign trail….”