It certainly appears that throughout the 2000s -- when Trump looked more like a 1980s has-been than a future leader of the free world -- that he was kept afloat by his reality-show paycheck, transparent scams like Trump University, licensing his name in various overseas kleptocracies and perhaps through his dealings with Sater and others with high-up Russian connections. Indeed, Donald Trump Jr. said as recently as 2008 that "we see a lot of money pouring in from Russia." What does President Trump owe to his friends in Moscow in return? We don't know -- and what else don't we know about the man who's been our president for just over a month? Just like in 1990, the "successful billionaire" that won the hearts of Rust Belt voters in November 2016 again may not be exactly who he says he is.