Money For Nothin’

Did President Donald J. Trump’s advisers negotiate a deal worth $10.2 Bn in exchange for lifting Russian sanctions? 

Remember that great 1980’s song by Dire Straits?  “Now that ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it / You play the guitar on the MTV / That ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it / Money for nothin’ and your chicks for free / Money for nothin’ and chicks for free”.

It was the anthem of the greedy heydays of the 1980s. Intoxicating indulgence, cheaply won fame and the worship of money and sex, above all else. It may have well been written about Donald Trump, the businessman, whose Midas touch seems to have given him the power of alchemy.

Again and again, Trump has been able to make money seemingly out of nothing, often trading off nothing more than his name, to make millions of dollars. Take the Trump Resort in Panama, which isn’t owned by Trump but bares his name. He earns $5m a year just for the use of his name. “You know Donald Trump. First it’s we, we, we, we, but after …