Coup Against Trump Looks to His Financial Dealings

Led by Robert Mueller, the Special Counsel investigation of Trump and his team is examining financial dealings of Trump et al with Deutsche Bank. This is the current cutting edge of the coup against Trump. Mueller’s foray into financing, debt, and payments has been known for some time, but it’s now gaining momentum. The entire matter of financial ties, contracts and cash flows is complex. It’s the most promising vulnerability of Trump because other avenues are dead ends so far.

Mueller is not going to be able to prove Russian interference in the 2016 election, or interference with any significant degree of influence; not unless he comes up with new evidence, because what has been revealed so far provides no proof. Mueller won’t therefore be able to make a case that Trump or his associates worked with Russians in their non-existent or negligible interference.

Mueller certainly can’t prove that Trump or his associates were Russian agents or helped Russian agents. Mueller can’t prove the lesser charge of collusion to influence the election either. Contacts and conversations are not collusion and so far what we know of these is that they were trivial in nature and content.

So far there has been no obstruction of justice either. That charge is even more unsubstantial than the Russian interference and collusion charges. Trump has many future opportunities, however, to fall into this trap.

That leaves Trump’s financial dealings. Mueller and his team will be at this fishing expedition for many months to come.

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11:56 am on July 27, 2017