Tipping

The Beat with Ari Melber:

Business Insider:

• MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell said a "source close to Deutsche Bank" told him that President Donald Trump's loans were underwritten by "Russian billionaires close to Vladimir Putin."
• "If true, that would explain every kind word Donald Trump has ever said about Russia and Vladimir Putin," O'Donnell said.
• There has yet to be any other reporting to substantiate this claim.
• Earlier on Tuesday, Deutsche Bank confirmed that it held tax records to do with Trump, but no details have yet been made public.
• Trump's ties to Deutsche Bank have long been the subject of rumor and speculation, and O'Donnell has a long record of controversial statements.

MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell added to the swirl of rumor that surrounds President Donald Trump's relationship with Deutsche Bank, suggesting that his loans with the lender were underwritten by Russian billionaires.

O'Donnell, appearing on the network Tuesday night with host Rachel Maddow, said that a source "close to Deutsche Bank says that the co-signers of Donald Trump's Deutsche Bank loans are Russian billionaires close to Vladimir Putin."

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, WaPo ran this today:

President Trump is so eager to complete hundreds of miles of border fence ahead of the 2020 presidential election that he has directed aides to fast-track billions of dollars’ worth of construction contracts, aggressively seize private land and disregard environmental rules, according to current and former officials involved with the project.

He also has told worried subordinates that he will pardon them of any potential wrongdoing should they have to break laws to get the barriers built quickly, those officials said.

And to be clear, the Press Poodles are pimping the narrative that this whole thing coalesces around the premise that it's all Trump's doing - that Trump is the driver and the sole owner of the responsibility.

Not even POTUS  - the most powerful guy on the whole fucking planet - can pull this off all by himself.

To reiterate - 45* has NOT remade the GOP in his image. He's the near-perfect reflection of what that party has been morphing into for at least 2 generations.

He's not working alone. He's surrounded and propped up by a full compliment of enablers from Washington to Moscow to Wall Street.

And most of those Daddy State pimps are wearing Republican badges. It has to be obvious at this point that the GOP has become a criminal enterprise.

They must not be let off the hook this time.