Chaos at Trump's Panama Property

What the hell is going on at the Trump Ocean Club in Panama?

Police in helmets and bulletproof vests on Wednesday entered and then left the Trump luxury hotel in Panama that has been at the center of a management dispute and the scene of brawls.

The owners of the hotel/condo are trying to oust the Trump Organization, which has been managing the property. The Trump people refuse to leave.

For months there have been accusations that the building has been used to launder money from drug trafficking and the Russian mafia:

In the interview, Ventura [the man who handled advance sales for the property] admitted that some of his brokers and clients who bought and sold units in the Trump Ocean Club were connected to the Russian mafia and other organized-crime groups, including a convicted money launderer who moved cash for drug cartels.

This is exactly why any reasonable president would never want to have business entanglements, especially in foreign countries. He doesn't really have any control over what goes on there, and when crap like this goes down, he will be tainted by the criminal activities taking place in a building bearing his name.

Donald Trump's refusal to divest from these properties and release his tax returns make it look like he's trying to cover up illegal activities.

I don't think Trump is involved in drug dealing. But he is profiting from drug dealing indirectly by laundering their money through his properties.

Trump has a long history of knowingly dealing with organized crime -- especially the Russian mob, which ran operations out of Trump Tower for years. He has sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property to Russian mobsters in New York and Florida. He has been involved in numerous projects with Russian-linked mobsters and crooked government officials in countries like Canada and Azerbaijan, in a deal that was linked to Iran.

The crazy thing is that the Panama debacle is not an isolated incident. Pretty much every Trump deal has a shady history -- from the casinos, to Trump University, to Miss Universe. It baffles me how Republicans can continue to defend a such an obvious crook and liar.

Conspiracy theorists on the right, as well as Fox News, are always trying to discredit Hillary Clinton and the Democrats with the most tenuous associations to non-existent crimes, like Pizzagate. But when there are literally dozens of widely known and irrefutable connections between Donald Trump and Russian mobsters, they just ignore them.