(CNN) A barrage of revelations and court gambits over the last 48 hours has left President Donald Trump and his shrinking legal team fighting an escalating battle on multiple fronts -- involving an explosive triumvirate of sex, Russia and money. And Trump's legal tangle became even more complicated when a federal judge gave the go-ahead to a lawsuit alleging that payments to his Washington hotel by foreign governments infringed the emoluments clause of the Constitution. A more fundamental question is why Trump's team could have been so concerned about what Manafort and Flynn might have to say about the President or his campaign. The response of the White House to the Times report exemplified the challenge Trump's team faces in fighting off wave after wave of disclosures about the Mueller probe. The news appeared to represent the most concrete link so far established by Mueller between the President's campaign and Russia.

Source: CNN March 29, 2018 04:59 UTC