An old tweet that really applies here:

Nothing about Trump has ever looked kinda bad at first but turned out OK. He’s always worse than you thought.

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) October 8, 2016

And when people try to deny Trump’s ties to Russia:

There is strong evidence that Trump’s businesses have received significant funding from Russian investors. Most notably, Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. made that very claim at a real estate conference in New York in 2008, saying “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.” Donald Trump Jr. added, “we see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”