Is it time yet?

I get the feeling, and it’s just a feeling, that the time that Donald Trump will get dumped is coming much faster than I thought. 

And, no, it's not the Democrats or the “I was at a meeting and never heard it” Republicans who will be doing the dumping. The Democrats lack the power and the see-no-evil hear-no-evil Republicans lack the will.

But there is one cold-eyed realist who has the strength and the will to dump Trump, and who is counting the pros and cons of doing it - a count that seems to be getting worse for our president every week.

That is, of course, Vladimir Putin, the KGB-trained leader who has no trouble sending his troops in and paying a lot of behind-the-scenes bribes to get what he wants, and who knows that when an asset becomes a liability there is only one thing to do - squeeze the last bit of value out of them, and get rid of them as an object lesson to others.

Think of it as a guy who gets in over his head to a loan shark. It's almost a cliche - the loan shark tells the cops “Why would I hurt him? I want to get my money back.”

Except, of course, he never will get paid. But, suddenly, all the other clients who are paying almost as much interest as people with loans from deregulated banks, suddenly start paying as much as they can. Until they lose their house.

I don’t want to get off track. The maze of complex relationships between Trump and the Trump empire and the Trump advisors and the Trump loans through lord knows how many shell companies is too easy to get lost in.

Let me put it simply. Trump is either an asset or a liability to the Russians. And the more he talks and the wilder his comments get, the more attention gets paid to things that Vladimir doesn’t want to talk about. And doesn’t want other people talking about either.

Putin goes around bare-chested and can enjoy the mocking attention because, in a lot of people, it's mixed with envy and admiration. Just ask any of the Republicans who said he was a much better leader than Barack Obama.

No, Trump can’t go around bare-chested. And, he keeps saying that better relations with Russia would be a good thing, although he never says for whom it would be a good thing.

Let's not talk about that.

Putin may have hated Hillary Clinton, but I think he is finding unpredictable chaos is not really a better deal. Maybe the time he leaks the secrets out to the “lying media” is getting closer than we think.

Maybe,  just maybe, I could be right.