A YAHOO explanation of what happened...

[Moostache]

32. Bingo...its ALWAYS about the money with these people and their ilk...

GOP "leadership"? McConnell and Ryan are neck deep in conflicts of interest and Russian money of their own. They won't do anything to directly bring that heat on them...like everything else, their plan is to delay, deny and obfuscate as long as necessary for this to go away. It always does in their playbook, no matter what.

Trump is a criminal and has been one his entire adult life, probably well before that. He is nothing but a fraud to his core and everyone knows it, most painfully of all, himself. He obsesses about being liked because he self-loathes and has daddy issues that were never resolved. It is not complicated at all...he is a jackass that knows in his private thoughts that he is an imbecile out of his depth and flailing around like a drunk on a 3-day bender at last call.

The money is the reason he sold his soul to Putin, the illicit loans and back door deals are the crimes that got him his sweet, sweet Rubles; and the inept cover-up and moronic yes-men are going to be the trigger that brings it all down on his head.