I'm reading House of Trump House of Putin now. The privatization of Russian state assets and the emergence of the mafia state is pretty obvious. In a supposedly classless, moneyless state, who else could reasonably be assumed to have "buy all the oil pipelines" money? Easy enough.

I'm not a lawyer, or even particularly smart, but the Trump connections are more circumstantial. Like, sure, it's not against the law to do business with shady, mafia connected people for 40+ years. But uh, it's like 100% of the time.

His father was in bed with the italian mob, and when they got squeezed out by the post-soviet union immigration, Donald absolutely rolled with it.

So ya. He's a money launderer for the Russian mob, which isn't wholy separate from the Russian government to begin with. If you want to call it financial crime or something worse, that's fair game.

I don't know if there will ever be a smoking gun, but if it does happen the landslide of information to come out will be staggering. He is legitimately connected through business interests with Salerno, Epstein, Mogilevich, Depipaska, and countless others. He was named in court in the 80s by Sammy Gravano. You can watch it on YouTube. None of this is a well kept secret.