From Shaun Mullen at The Moderate Voice:
Will we look back on this week as the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency? If that is the case — and I’m somewhat skeptical it is despite the pronouncements of a goodly number of pundits — will Trump’s fall have more to do with the rampant corruption surrounding Michael Cohen and his own family business than Kremlin collusion?
Possibly. Any way will suffice so long as it’s the highway, but it is a pisser that all that rot has been hiding in plain view for many years.
Way back in the late 1990s — you know, when Bill Clinton was getting spit roasted for having sex with that woman and lying about it — tens of millions of money-laundered dollars were flowing into Trump’s luxury developments and Atlantic City casinos from Russians, many of them mobsters.
It is not an exaggeration to say that dirty Russian money saved Trump, if only barely.