Thread by @bryanbehar

Help me understand. Trump was getting a Moscow tower, hacked DNC emails, and dirt on HRC.

What was Russia getting in return?

Is there something I’m missing besides complete ownership of the US president and a free stream of money laundering?

Please stop responding “isn’t that enough?”

Of course that’s enough.

I’m a hack comedy writer not a foreign affairs guru. There’s obviously a quid pro quo.

I just wanted to make sure there isn’t something I’m missing.

What role do we think money laundering plays?

Why was Deutsche Bank the only lender willing to still give Trump money?

What about Russian oligarchs laundering ill-gotten gains in Trump Tower?

Remind me of the timeline. Had the Obama Administration already imposed sanctions on Russia?

About Ukraine? Crimea?

Follow up questions: So were the sanctions over electoral interference additional sanctions?

And is the Magnitsky Act something entirely different from sanctions

So for the lawyers out there. We hear about collusion/ conspiracy, about obstruction of justice and about money laundering.

Lots of people throw out treason casualty as a descriptor of un-American behavior.

Is there any realistic chance there will be an actual treason charge?

If Trump sold out our national interests for his own political/ financial gain, is that a provable offense?

Besides simply being “not kosher?”

So, the lifting of sanctions. Free reign in Crimea. The weakening of NATO.

All cases of our president doing the bidding of a foreign power.

And subjugating our interests to theirs.

When proven, this will be the most incredible story in US history. Far bigger than Watergate.