More dots to connect. The big picture may be getting clearer.

while increasing debt at the same time. Fact: His properties, primarily the golf courses, have been extremely overvalued and not supported by revenue. Fact: There has been reported an influx of unexplained cash from Russian oligarchs. The release of his tax returns would clarify exactly who Trump owes money to. There is much more than the diminished net worth at stake. He once said the release of his tax records could be used against him. And this does not explore his reported ties to a certain mob boss. For all we know he has been bought and paid for. We as a nation deserve to know.

“Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” Trump’s son, Donald Jr., told a real estate conference in 2008, according to an account posted on the website of eTurboNews, a trade publication. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”

It's estimated that more than half of Drumpf's $630 million in debt is owed to Russians with connections to Putin.

This is like a 007 movie with Gold Finger. I'm disgusted, but intrigued at what probably are the reasons driving Drumpf on this chaotic charade.

This keeps getting better all the time.

....before his election. It was obvious he promised them something (perhaps arms via the Iran Contra affair?) in exchange for them not releasing the embassy hostages until after the election.

the Trump news, it is all coming out so fast now.

yikes

We are all going to be exhausted come November.

But I need to pace myself because I get inundated with info easily and then I can't sleep at night!

It becomes overwhelming and often depressing. I have to take frequent breaks to maintain my sanity.

Who own Cheeto though his debt. Putin is waiting patiently to make his move.

This has got to get out that the traitor Cheeto is going to sell this country to get his debts paid off.

I just don't get how his brain washed zombies have no problem with Cheeto being controlled by the Russian foreign bankers. It is a big conflict of interest.

Corrupt violent authoritarianism is the way of the future!!!!1

yup

That maybe Russia should be able to exploit Russias oil and gas fields???? Besides, shouldn't we be independent enough as a Sovereign NationState to just say to ourselves:

Fuck what the rest of the world does...If China want to pay people 10cents/hour, let them, but I'm NOT COMPETING with that ( because that's STUPID)...

If Russia wants their gas and oil fields exploited, LET THEM DO IT, because we don't need to because we're smart enough to mass-produce solar panels in America..

Maybe it's just me. 'Competing' with idiots doesn't seem like a useful idea.

make more money on oil and gas. No biggie, right?"

Yeah, treason sounds about right. Carter Page and Manafort and a few others may eventually find that they can't go anywhere except Russia if they keep this shit up.

when The Donald tries to walk away from these oilygarchal loans, and they realize that he's not going to be their American Tsar puppet.

Jimmy Hoffa comes to mind.

... All except the one with the exit door.

And the other foots going to drop here in the next few days or is this more harmless than it appears to be?

D. Trump's business dealings in Russia....

First of all, the President is in charge of distribution of the President's Daily Briefing. So President Obama is in the ultimate position to know whether or not Donald Trump held onto that classified information for all of three hours before he blabbed it.

Second, the moment that Donald Trump publicly asked the Russians to commit espionage on his behalf, a counterintelligence investigation surely went into high gear. That may well have led to the counter-hack of Russian intelligence that briefly made the news two days ago. That also would put the President in a position to know a lot more than any of us.

Third, before any of that, the press had already taken note of the Trump campaign's intervention in changing the Republican Party platform to favor the Russians. That has now bled out to reveal that one of Trump's foreign policy advisers was actually in Russia, smearing US foreign policy, before he returned to lead the effort to change the platform.

And most importantly, even though we all know Republicans well enough to recognize their small-minded automatic resistance to what the President said yesterday, what the President actually did was issue a clear warning to Republicans, telling them to change their tunes now or regret it later. That is something one would do over an impending national security problem. In mere politics, one does not offer your political enemies such an opportunity. In retrospect, the smarter of them (such as they are) will realize they were warned.

Now we see Democrats in the Senate calling for hearings, and the important thing to note here is that the Senate is in recess in an election year, or as close as Republicans will allow it to go to a recess without letting the President appoint judges. That suggests that the Senate has now been tipped off to what's going down.

And finally, Donald Trump's Twitter feed has fallen silent, and he has no business scheduled for the rest of the week. What force of nature could possibly intervene to make Donald Trump shut the hell up? Pound-me-in-the-ass prison, is what.