Nixon’s downfall was the “18-Minute Gap”. I predict Trump’s downfall will be the “Two Report Gap” from FinCEn’s SARS database (and I also predict that there are more than just two missing reports).
No doubt you’ve already read the New Yorker story that reveals that someone purged at least two of Michael Cohen’s SARS reports from the Treasury FinCen database.
That story revealed there’s a “Two Report Gap” , but (because we can’t bing watch this comedy of errors, and can’t jump ahead to the season finale) there’s no way to know for certain who Cohen was dealing with on the other end of the suspicious transactions. Yet, I find it surprising and curious that no one has yet publically stated who the obvious other party was and the likely reason the SARS reports were removed, purged, or concealed. Are reporters being coy, or they are still too naive to point the finger at the most obvious protagonist?
Applying Trump’s Razor (which says, “ascertain the stupidest possible scenario that can be reconciled with the available facts and that answer is likely correct”), the obvious reason the SARS reports were deleted is that they show payments from one of Cohen’s pay-to-play accounts directly to Trump (or one of Trump’s businesses).
And the most likely method those records disappeared, I’m guessing is that on Jan 21, 2017, one of Trump’s minions at the Department of Treasury (perhaps Sec. Munchkin himself), got up early and went to his new office at the Treasury Building, and went through the FinCen database and removed or concealed every SARS report with Trump’s name.