My prediction...

[Frogg]

dRumph Co. is only playing for the money! If the reports regarding the secretive 19.5% sell-off of the russian oil company are any indication (19% referenced in Steele dossier) then here we go! I view everything he does thru the lense of 1) financial benefit to himself and 2) Putin agenda. My hope (gotta have a little bit) remains tied to the fact he does not enjoy scrutiny or criticism of any kind and once the money is flowing and Poppa Pootie is satisfied, then he can exit. I think the Repugs will let him charge around the china shop until they have their own agenda realised and then I think he will suddenly leave office for "health reasons". The downside on this scenario...it is going to take a bit of time for Poppa Poot to arrange the scenario to "take the oil". The 7 countries on the ban are the nexus of the plan. Drive them into the hands of the Russians, sever US relations...they get the oil...and finally dRumphy truly becomes the billionaire he always wanted to be!


Just my thoughts...

[Wellstone ruled]

1. First Trump has to take care of his

close personal friends.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. David Frum in The Atlantic thinks money is tRump's first & main objective

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-build-an-autocracy/513872/

He likens it to kleptocracies like Hungary and South Africa. I would add Putin's Russia too.

[Frogg]

3. I think Frum is correct...

He has lived his entire life for the buck...All of this just seems like a deal!

[Rhiannon12866]

4. I never doubted that he was in it for the money

It's his ultimate "deal," Leader of the Free World! What could be better?? He's the guy in charge and everyone else will pay for the privilege - of anything! He has no knowledge, but he can appoint others to do all the work and reap the benefits! And his supporters/enablers are too blind to see it and the American people - the entire free world - are paying the price.

[WheelWalker]

5. Nyet. At this point, he's been drinking power and now he's drunk on the drinking of it.

He'll come back to the money, but right now he's on a bender. He's lost sight of the money which could be his financial ruin when this plays all the way out.

[Frogg]

6. 19%

19% shareholder of one of Russia's largest oil companies is awfully tantalizing for a person like dRumph. It's in the Steele dossier. dRumph co. Operatives were promised a 19% stake...also he told the CIA "we should have taken the oil" so he can pronounce he was right when Putin sweeps into the newly banned 7 countries and swoops up the oil. Tillerson, sanctions, election hacking, Russian spies disappearing and dying...the breadcrumbs are out there to follow! The amount of money in such a deal would be staggering.