Adam Davidson has a story dated May 12, 2017, on the New Yorker web site.
That quote, in the first paragraph, struck me. Here it is:
I spoke recently to a longtime business associate of Donald Trump, and asked his thoughts about the various investigations into collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. He laughed and said that there is no way Trump could have been part of such a conspiracy. “He couldn’t sit through the meeting,” the associate said. This is a character analysis I’ve heard from several people who have worked with Trump, one that seems confirmed daily by the President’s statements and tweets: the man doesn’t go in for complex, long-term plans. He likes quick, tangible results—“something shiny,” the associate told me. “Right away.”
Read the whole article: www.newyorker.com/… It goes on about how Trump's casino in Atlantic City was very lax on spotting or reporting to the Treasury Department activities that were suspicious for money laundering. Money laundering is complicated by design. Even if Trump had no intention to facilitate it, I can imagine he wouldn't have the patience to listen to his lawyers, auditors, and accountants explain why something needed to be reported. That would go at least double if the people who should be reported were his friends or business partners, and even more so if he owed them money or if they could blackmail him.
I've been following politics since the mid 1960's. There's been a remarkable deterioration in the attention span of Republican presidents. I remember a story Nixon told about himself: He'd just started law school and he was worried he wasn't going to make it. He mentioned the worry to a senor, who asked, "Wasn't that you I saw studying in the library a good eight hours last night? Yes? Then you've got what it takes -- an iron butt." Whatever else I'd say about Nixon, he had a plenty long attention span. By the 1980's, Ronald Reagan's staff told each other to be concise because Reagan had an eight minute attention span. Eight minutes, it seems, would be forever for Trump. He said he prefers reports no more than one page, limited to no more than nine bullet points. http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/intelligence-briefings-trump-prefers-little-possible http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/02/trump-asked-national-security-adviser-for-econ-tips-report.html