It’s a twofer – destroy everything and pocket billions.
This week, new financial disclosures suggested that Mr. Trump has broken [the Berlusconi] mold by making at least $2.2 billion in his first year back in the White House, including about $1.4 billion from his family’s cryptocurrency businesses.
Mr. Trump’s profits are a haul once unimaginable for any leader of a liberal democracy, particularly a sitting American president.
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The Trump family’s earnings, experts said, have moved him into an echelon of enrichment more associated with strongmen in Russia and Turkey.
His gains were all the more striking because the United States has long positioned itself as a standard-bearer for financial regulation, anti-graft measures and the rule of law.
And now Trump has positioned the US as a rancid swamp of corruption plus brutality. What a time to be alive.
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