Despite having billions of dollars in assets, Donald Trump is broke. His assets are canceled out by crushing debt. His income goes to debt service, so he has no cash on hand. He’s spent years sinking further and further into debt. Specifically, he went bust in the 2008 economic crash and never recovered. Now we know that right around the time he hit rock bottom financially, he began dealing almost entirely in cash he didn’t officially have.

In a stunning new revelation that goes a long way to explaining everything, it turns out that right around the time Trump’s finances went completely into the toilet, he suddenly abandoned his lifelong habit of buying properties with borrowed money, and instead he began buying properties with cash. Lots of it. In fact the Washington Post is reporting that he’s used the better part of a half a billion dollars in cash over the past nine years to buy up properties. Here’s the thing: broke people don’t have that kind of cash.

The WaPo isn’t willing to say it, but we will: Trump had to have gotten that sudden influx of secret cash from Russia. No one gives a broke real estate magnate that big of a wad of cash so he can go on a real estate spending spree. That kind of thing just doesn’t happen, unless, say, Vladimir Putin saw it as an opportunity to turn Trump into an indebted puppet so he could later exploit it in the political arena.

Now all that’s left is to uncover how the Russians were funneling this money to Donald Trump. Once that’s exposed, the gig will be up. For all we know, Special Counsel Robert Mueller may already have it all pieced together. Perhaps this is the real reason Trump went the entire weekend without his usual arrogant tweeting.



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