Trump's Toadyism; Another Theory

He may be a Russian asset and he may be a wannabee dictator, but the simplest explanation is that Trump is in hock to the Russians. And not up to his eyebrows, more like 20 feet over his head.

After Trump’s last bankruptcy, so far as press reports indicate, he could no longer borrow money at reasonable rates here in the U.S., and a real estate developer who can’t borrow money is rapidly out of business.

So Trump, as his son Eric tells it, turned away from U.S. banks and went to a number of Russian billionaires for his money. In 2014, when asked directly how he could have acquired $100 million in cash for new golf course acquisitions, Eric Trump famously said, “Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.”

So, if President Putin were to order his own billionaires to get their money back out of Trump’s properties and refuse to give him any more, Trump could well end up broke.

Really broke.

As in, losing all his properties, from Mar-a-Lago to Trump Tower.

It could wipe out all of his remaining businesses.

His kids would have to get real jobs, and no more big-game safaris.

His wife might leave him, and take their son.

He could end up living in a cardboard box on skid row.

A slight quibble: If Trump resigns or loses, he'll get a presidential pension(about $200K/yr), a free office and staff, travel allowance and a SS detail. $200K would mean that he could afford to rent a small apartment in Treason Trump Tower.

If he is impeached and convicted, then he won't get those.

Thing is, Trump may be stupidly arrogant enough to be convicted. Then he'd face the prospect of owing very large sums of money to some people who regard that level of financial default as a capital offense.