@LiberalLibrarian He's been there before. Deutsche Bank and Russian oligarchs bailed him out. There are many kinds of assets; being willing to make an asset of himself is his forte. The Russians will back him as long as he keeps on making trouble for the West, and he'll do that as long as he has any platform at all.
@ImagineThat Except now it would be painfully obvious that he's trucking with foreign powers. I wouldn't be surprised if the FBI has a tap on his accounts.