< on the brink of becoming a banana republic>
Donald Trump is a career criminal who has collapsed his criminal empire and his family into the presidency. Putin owns him, and Trump is clearly scared to death of Putin; but as much as he fears Putin, he fears Mueller even more. Trump can sense impending doom, and the rats he has surrounded himself are beginning to bale on him, as well they should: he would and will give any of them up in a New York minute. Flynn has already flipped; maybe Manafort, too. Today Jared threw Don Jr. under the bus. Stay tuned for more of the same.
I think the election meddling is the tip of the Russian iceberg. Mueller is pulling at the thread of Trump's taxes and his finances, and as he does, the Trump house of cards will come tumbling down.
And then there's the hotel pictures. I think Putin has them; I think Trump knows he has them.