And Russian oligarchs to buy his condos.

Manafort is a crooked businessman, as Cohen is a crooked lawyer.

So crooks will associate.

But the media loves to promote the "smoking gun" narrative. Or, the "smocking gun" narrative.

It is his heart and soul.

Mueller's mandate is fairly flexible, and he and his investigators are in what you could call a 'target rich environment'. So there really is zero chance that multiple skeletons aren't coming back to haunt Individual 1.

that Russia wanted to infiltrate his campaign. Hillary was told the same thing. The FBI asked him to tell them if he received such contacts.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-warned-trump-2016-russians-would-try-infiltrate-his-campaign-n830596

He wasn't ignorant. He was compromised.

The FBI, informing him of the issues and concerns the prior year precludes any plausible deniability on his part.

"In the weeks following... Donald Trump was warned that... Russia, would probably try to spy on and infiltrate his campaign. The warning came in the form of a high-level counterintelligence briefing by senior FBI officials... "

(NBC News report, December 2017)

As campaign manager if he was ethical, he would have steered Trump Jr and Kushner and others away from meeting with Russians or other foreigners during campaign.

FBI actually met with all of the Trump campaign staff soon after Trump won the nomination to warn them about foreign contacts and that they were supposed to report to FBI any attempts by foreigners to contact them.

Finally, if they were innocent and just didn't know the laws, why did they all persistently lie about their Russian contacts.

As mentioned yesterday on MSNBC, he appears to be more afraid of the Russian thugs than of Manafort, of spending the rest of his life in jail of - I think - losing all his wealth and harming his family.