Trump Vanity

According to a new report from the New Yorker, the Trump family has accumulated over $3 billion while being president.

How is this possible, you might ask? It’s corruption, plain and simple.

Here are a few of the ways the Trump family may have made money off his presidency:

Trump has brought in an estimated $125 million by hosting campaign events and essentially selling access at his Mar-A-Lago resort. At least $27.7 million has been estimated to come in through his private online store that sells campaign-style merch (Traditionally, campaign merch will support the campaign. But the sale of this Trump merch goes to Trump directly.)

Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was a walking conflict of interest as he informed policies in the Middle East while also having business and real estate interests in the region. It was estimated that his private equity firm made $320 million through private equity deals with the Saudis — possibly exchanged in an effort to curry favor or receive favorability.

What’s more, the Trump Organization has also closed on hotel, resort, and golf club deals worth at least $105.8 million with the Saudis, and made a $40 million deal to license a Trump-branded resort in Hanoi. Remember when Qatar gifted Trump a private jet? That was worth at least $150 million. (Trump was able to accept this gift through his Presidential Library fund — I’ve got a bill to close this loophole.)

And this is a biggie: Trump has been able to wield his executive authority by suing large companies and receiving settlements through the Trump Presidential Library fund. He sued ABC for defamation, and they agreed to pay $15 million to settle. He went after Meta for kicking him off their platforms following the January 6th insurrection, and they settled for $22 million. He went after X for the same thing, and they reportedly settled for $10 million. Oh yeah, and Paramount conveniently settled his defamation suit against them for $16 million around the same time they started seeking merger approval from his Administration. My bill would put an end to these settlements, too. I’m sure you saw lots and lots (and lots) of marketing materials for Amazon’s movie about Melania Trump. Amazon paid $40 million for the rights to the Melania documentary, with $28 million going directly to Melania Trump. Meanwhile, Amazon and Jeff Bezos have huge financial stakes in decisions pending before the Trump administration. I’m investigating whether Amazon violated federal bribery laws.

Yes, as a sitting president, Trump shares erratic and problematic content on Truth Social. Did you know that Trump’s media shell company — Trump Media & Technology Group — owns a majority stake in the platform and has gained him an estimated $25 million? He’s got a financial incentive for his official presidential communications to exclusively be shared on Truth Social.

Donald Trump Jr. is currently a partner at a venture-capital firm he co-founded called 1789 Capital, which has acquired minority stakes in a number of companies that are affected by the decisions of the federal government, including defense contractors — gaining him an estimated $19.6 million.

Oh, and the crypto of it all…The Trump family has made over $2 billion dollars from their involvement in cryptocurrencies. That includes selling NFTs of Trump looking like Superman, selling digital tokens like $TRUMP and $MELANIA, and running crypto firms that execute lucrative deals with wealthy families from the Gulf or invest in A.I. data centers. All of this happened as Trump has led the fight to deregulate the crypto industry. All in all, the New Yorker estimates a total of $3.4 billion that the Trump family has potentially made off of his presidency (from what they have tracked so far).

This is all sickening. The American people should have complete confidence that their president is making decisions with only one factor in mind: the public interest. Not his bank accounts, not his family fortune, not the value of his cryptocurrencies.

That’s why I’m fighting Trump’s corruption and grift every day in the Senate — and why I’ve proposed the most ambitious set of anti-corruption reforms since Watergate. We’ve got to take back our Congressional majorities to put a strong check on this corrupt Administration — and then work to put some real measures in place t

Found this early afternoon on Friday, Google search at that time didn't show it on any news outlets. Big difference after midnight.

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