A lengthy investigation from The New Yorker estimates Trump and his family will have enriched themselves by more than $3.4 billion by the end of his second term, much of it from deals, transactions, and investments that almost certainly wouldn’t have happened if he’d never been president.

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  • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The special counsel had finally moved forward with prosecuting right before the election. There was going to be a federal trial. That all got dropped when he won.

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      Trump’s been doing crimes since the 1980s and skated every time. You are deluding yourself if you believe a special counsel was going to finally do its job, the day after Trump returned to political irrelevance.

      Not when everyone from Guliani to Comey to Garland had dragged their heels for 40 years.