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turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
Mon Jun 5, 2023, 02:53 PM Jun 2023

Trump raked in over $80 million from businesses in UK and Ireland while president: watchdog

By Sky Palma
Published June 5, 2023, 2:21 PM ET

Former President Donald Trump made more than $80 million from his businesses in Ireland and Scotland during his years in the White House, according to a report from the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).

CREW's report stated that all the money was made "with extraordinary conflicts of interest, mixing Trump’s personal financial interests with the national interests of the United States." The group claims that Trump made over a billion dollars in income while he was president, with up to $160 million of that money "coming from businesses in foreign countries with interest in U.S. foreign policy."

As CREW points out, Trump made the choice not to divest from his businesses while serving his term as president -- a choice that CREW says led to "four years of egregious conflicts of interest between his business and the government."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-business/

I don't know what anyone else thinks but I want my tax dollars back on everything that he did while in office...cost of riding around on Airforce 1, breakfasts, lunches and dinners, water usage, electrical ,heat and is pay...everything........ even if he goes to jail he pays for his time.......fucking grifter.....

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Trump raked in over $80 million from businesses in UK and Ireland while president: watchdog (Original Post) turbinetree Jun 2023 OP
...and Jimmy Carter had to sell his beloved peanut farm. gab13by13 Jun 2023 #1
28 months and counting republianmushroom Jun 2023 #2
I wonder if we will ever find out the true cost of the Trump presidency. Irish_Dem Jun 2023 #3

Irish_Dem

(47,014 posts)
3. I wonder if we will ever find out the true cost of the Trump presidency.
Mon Jun 5, 2023, 04:23 PM
Jun 2023

All of the grifting, con jobs, theft, sale of classified docs.
All the tax payer funded investigations, court costs, etc.
Damage to national security.
Lives lost.

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