Money laundering is worse than obstruction, politically speaking.

[garybeck]

If this money laundering story has any legs to it, it will be much harder to shake off than the obstruction.

With obstruction only, we constantly hear.... "But was there an actual crime he was obstructing about?"

With money laundering, that itself is perceived as a serious crime. if there are millions of dollars involved, and Russia too, he will not be able to shake it off so easily.

I think that is when you see more "normal" conservatives jump off the Trumpwagon. And that will leave just the lunatics who would follow him off the edge of a cliff.

[vlyons]

1. money laundering is especially heinous

when you consider where the money might have originated. Embezzled from state and private Russian enterprises, Russian blackmail, prostitution, extorsion, illegal gun running, illegal drugs, political bribes.

[empedocles]

3. Squarely raises the 'traitor'/traitortrump issue - lurking in the background is . . . treason

[mr_lebowski]

2. Quite a lot of them are such knuckle-dragging, Jonestown-like freaking deranged lunatics ...

That a public video of Trump slowly cutting open the skull of an crying newborn with a bonesaw and slurping it's brains out through a straw ... wouldn't phase them ...

Well, as long as it wasn't a WHITE baby. If it was white, then they might flinch for a day or two, before they began swinging again from his sack.

Seriously, a significant contingent of our fellow citizens have absolutely lost their minds, and are COMPLETELY in Trump's (and Faux's) thrall. Nothing will break them of it.

And many such people ... are in Congress right now.

And most of them also have no idea what 'money laundering' even means.