Trump’s response to the story may give us more information about its importance than anything contained within it. Trump tweeted angrily that “the Witch Hunt has given up on Russia and is looking at the rest of the World,” and then again, “The Witch Hunt finds no Collusion with Russia - so now they’re looking at the rest of the World. Oh’ great!” His attorney Rudy Giuliani echoed this absurd defense. “It shows them at the end of the road — are we now going to check Africa and South America?” he told the Times.

If the news about the Gulf States is unrelated, it would hardly exculpate Trump. The discovery of an additional crime obviously does not constitute proof that the original crime did not exist. If the FBI is investigating a suspect for racketeering, and it turns up evidence he engaged in loan-sharking as well, “he’s definitely innocent of racketeering” is not the most likely explanation. The more intuitive account of these facts is that the suspect has a propensity to commit crimes.

The deeper question is how closely related the Gulf story is to the heart of the Russia question. Was it just another one of Donald Jr.’s legal misadventures? Or did Nader, Prince, and the Gulf States play a central role in facilitating a corrupt deal with Russia?

Trump’s furious lashing out, including his reckless escalation of a crisis with the Department of Justice this weekend, provides interesting clues. Trump has no poker face, no chill. The closer the investigators get to incriminating evidence, the more intensely he rages. He resembles a suspect at a crime scene screaming at the police not to go into the attic. And now that attic is looking awfully interesting.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3981998&forum_id=2#36103072)