r/UnderReportedNews • u/Silent-Resort-3076 • 1d ago

Trump / MAGA 🦅 "Trump’s Profiteering Hits 4 Billion" l The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/trumps-profiteering-hits-four-billion-dollars

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At the start of Donald Trump’s first term, he promised that he and his family would never do anything that might even be “perceived to be exploitive of office of the Presidency.”

By contrast, his second term looks rapacious. He and members of his family have signed a blitz of foreign mega-deals shadowed by conflicts of interest, and they’ve launched at least five different cryptocurrency enterprises, all of which leverage Trump’s status as President to lure buyers or investors. Ethics watchdogs say that no other President has ever so nakedly exploited his position, or on such a scale.

Trump recently explained to the Times why he cast aside his former restraint: “I found out that nobody cared.”

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u/mrflash818 18h ago

Grift. Grift. Grift.

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It feels like they are like the main characters of the 'flix series "The Fall Of The House Of Usher."

That there was a deal made.

So now, my hope is: once the deal is over, their dynasty will fall, as happened in the series.

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u/Cohens4thClient 17h ago

Thats just the stuff we know. 

The pardons for the ex Honduras president who was also a drug lord who shipped 800,000 tons of cocaine to the US? He paid for that pardon. Billions is nothing to a cartel.

The crypto fraudster? Easily a billion to get free. 

Barron Trump is now worth over $200 million. Are going to pretend thats the same as Hunter selling a painting?