It is no exaggeration to say that the world is now gripped with a new twist in the story of Donald Trump, as a consequence of alleged disclosures upcoming in a new book by Michael Wolff. A big public row has broken out between Steve Bannon and his former boss, the details of which are wall to wall on international media and do not need to be repeated here.
I have no means of knowing how much of the book is true and how much is rubbish. Maybe all one or the other, but more likely a mix. I have never subscribed to the idea of collusion with Russia, nor do I think meeting with them can be treason, unless there is something medieval about the US Constitution which I have missed. But I have all along said that there is a strong possibility of Russian capital funding parts of the Trump empire. This is not illegal but it might not sit well with the American public in the present climate. However, a new thought has emerged based upon comments from several sources. Russia has been subject to sanctions since the Crimea returned to the Russian Federation, a miscalculation by the Western promoters of the overthrow of the Russia leaning Kiev government in 2014.
If money laundering to circumvent those sanctions was used to get funding from its Russian source to its destination in a Trump corporation and that is proved, the Trump presidency will end quite suddenly. If not all the latest drama is but another Twitter storm.