For Sale: Trump is leveraging power of his office to reap profits for family businesses
Source: Associated Press
By BRIAN SLODYSKO and WILL WEISSERT
Updated 7:13 AM EDT, July 18, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) If one theme has emerged in President Donald Trumps second term, its this: Hes leveraged the power of his office for personal gain unlike anyone before in history.
From crypto coins to bibles, overseas development deals to an upcoming line of cellphones, Trump family businesses have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars since his election, an unprecedented flood of often shadowy money from billionaires, foreign governments and cryptocurrency tycoons with interests before the federal government.
He is president and is supposed to be working in the publics interest, said James Thurber, an emeritus professor at American University, who has researched lobbying, campaign finance and political corruption for decades. Instead, he is helping his own personal interest to grow his wealth. Its totally not normal.
The sums amassed by the Trump Organization, the collection of companies controlled by the presidents children, are far greater than those collected by the family during the presidents first term, when patronage of his hotels, resorts and golf courses was de rigueur to curry favor with the famously transactional commander-in-chief.
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far greater than those collected by the family during the presidents first term

Irish_Dem
(72,465 posts)usonian
(19,164 posts)💧💧💧💧💧
FredGarvin
(681 posts)Someone needs to do something.
slightlv
(6,137 posts)I'd like to see a clawback of all his ill gotten gains. He makes no issue with clawing back SS, student loans, etc., from people who have no money and are just trying to live life as honestly as possible. We will take cars, houses, cash, and other assets from people even suspected of crimes like drug smuggling, etc. AFAIC, what trump is doing is worse than drug smuggling, and his profits from his misdeeds should be clawed back and redistributed amongst the American people from whom he first stole the money!
Bayard
(26,033 posts)trump thumbs his nose at oversight, or accountability, to say nothing of the Constitution.
OKIsItJustMe
(21,447 posts)T****s links to Epstein, his treatment of women (and girls) are (sadly) old news. They should have disqualified him from his first term, let alone a second. However, they (after all of these years) are whats getting all of the attention.
I dont mean to diminish his crimes against women, but
Does anyone remember that he organized and led an (armed) insurrection against the US Government 4 years ago? Apparently, MAGAs just fine with him setting cop killers (AKA patriots) loose.
His first term was obscene in the way he diverted government money into his own pockets, the way he took bribes from foreign governments, and state governments and this term hes dropped all subtlety.
But, have you heard? He may have been one of Epsteins clients?"
Paladin
(31,071 posts)Lord knows, they haven't given much of a shit about it, before. So much more fun, to dredge up Biden's supposed mental deficiencies, yet one more time...
OKIsItJustMe
(21,447 posts)You know the people who arent allowed to be in the Oval Office because they wont call the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America on T****s orders?
wiggs
(8,297 posts)Kid Berwyn
(21,347 posts)anymore.
Scott Alan Swaggerty
(43 posts)bluestarone
(19,953 posts)AGAINST TSF! Then vote right now if it's against any Democrats. That's where we stand with THIS Supreme Court.
republianmushroom
(20,690 posts)What rock has the news media been under.