Russia scandal gets closer to Trump

When dirt flies it tends to stick. However many tweets emanate from Donald Trump expressing his innocence, the first charges arising from the Robert Mueller investigation linked to key former members of his campaign team may potentially build the foundations of a case aainst the president himself. Trump has repeated a hundred times that there was no collusion with the Russians to win the presidency. I'm sure he believes that to be true. But the first drip drip accusations from the illustrious former director of the FBI are going to be highly damaging to Trump. These are people, especially Paul Manafort, who were closer to his ears than most. These were trusted advisers. Did Trump ever have any inkling that Manafort might have been allegedly engaged in money-laundering millions of dollars from pro-Russian political groups? Well of course the president has tweeted that this was all a long time ago and has nothing to do with him. We don't know whether Robert Mueller thinks Trump is an innocent party. But he has gone ahead with indicting Manafort on serious charges and the dirt will fly closer to the White House as a result. However, the big story, and the one that Trump must be most concerned about, is the deal that seems to have been reached between Mueller and George Papadopoulos who briefly served as a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign. He has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his links to a Russian who was close to Putin's elite inner circle. That's a serious felony. But he is obviously telling Mueller everything he knows. The question is, what DOES he know and does any of it put Trump in a dodgy light? If Trump can spell Papadopoulos in his quick-fire tweets, I expect we're going to hear some denunciations of his former aide in the near future. Trump shouts about Hillary Clinton's alleged wrongdoings and wants the FBI to switch their attention to her. But he's the president. What's at stake here for the president and for the nation is potentially huge. Hillary is yesterday's presidential candidate.