They seem to be getting very, very good lawyers. Guess not being a cheap, lying, raging asshole does pay off.

I have always figured that Trump is a wholly owned subsidiary of Putin & Co. Most of his entourage is also implicated. Flynn is probably in an FBI safe house, singing like a canary.

Trump's entire fortune is a house of cards and I think it is killing him that everything is going to be scrutinized.

and illegal campaign contributions from a foreign power. I think that third one is as big as the others, because half the GOP leadership got money from Russian oligarchs. Just MHO, but we'll see.

They are all hand in hand.

and it's not clear how that happens.

in terms of indictments and prosecutions, money is the easiest to prove. lots of digging, but there's a paper trail waiting to be found. not so easy to prove collusion, to distinguish it from a mere coincidence of interests. at least not without some of the aforementioned money paper trail. and blackmail? it's not illegal to be the victim of blackmail, even if you foolishly supplied the blackmail material. the question is what did you do to escape the wrath of the blackmailer? again, hard to prove anything without that money paper trail.

however, it's hard to see foxnews abandoning benedict donald because of something they'll call a "business deal". depends a bit on exactly what the paper trail turns up, i guess, but given the complexity of donnie's myriad shell companies, it's likely to be "too complicated". foxnews will just throw up their hands and say no one can know for certain it's so complicated and democrats are jumping to partisan conclusions, blah, blah, blah.


i keep thinking of that quote from edwin edwards, that nothing could sink him unless he's caught with a dead girl or a live boy.

so maybe we're back to the blackmail material after all -- though i'm not sure we'll ever be able to uncover that.

Money

Money laundering

Emoluments

Blackmail

Sycophancy

Hookers

Collusion

Lawyering up

Election tampering

Secretive condo purchases

China

Russia

North Korea

Qatar the terrorist state

Qatar the dedicated ally

Cuba for the Russians

So I vote all three.