Maybe not so bizzaro. It goes on all the time in other arenas, why not the presidential election?

Or another golf course.

Hundred-millionaire? Who knows?

Republicans are pros at grabbing free money.

Maybe Trump or one of his kids took out a loan, planning, in Trump-fashion, not to repay. Only, this time, they found that the loan had been bought up by a Russian oligarch. Bankruptcy is no longer an option. If their real assets don't match what's been inflated for public consumption, perhaps they couldn't repay. Could an arrangement be made where the oligarchs are repaid with proceeds from betting on a thrown election?

There's going out on a limb, and then there's going out on a twig. This is probably a twig. It's sad, though, that we have a candidate that suggests this kind of speculation, and who's financial dealings are so opaque that this kind of thinking can't be completely discounted.

I might try to find out more, if I can.

Starting with this article from early August:
https://news.vice.com/article/trumps-economic-team-includes-big-short-billionaire-who-bet-against-us-housing-market

Donald Trump unveiled his team of economic policy advisors Friday, which includes five men named Steve, and poker player and hedge fund investor John Paulson, the short-seller best known for making billions from betting against the housing market before the 2007 crash.

Paulson became famous for placing big bets that subprime mortgages were about to fail en masse, and at one point was making $10 million a day, or $4 billion total at the peak of the housing collapse, according to the Wall Street Journal. A broker once called Paulson in 2007 to remind him he had an account with $5 million left in it — which Paulson had apparently forgotten about since it was such a small sum. His firm Paulson & Co. has had a pretty uneven record ever since.