Investigations are what is important in your life? Don't you think if Trump was doing all the things you claim that somebody in Obama's weaponized government would be holding him accountable? What money has Trump grabbed?
A person would either have to be blind and deaf or intentionally turning a blind eye and deaf ear to the way that Trump has and still is increasing his and his families wealth by using his presidency. No modern president has profited this way during his time in office. Previous presidnts put their assets in blind trusts to avoid conflicts between their financial interests and the public interest. Trump did not.
He announced in January 2017 that he would step away from his businesses by putting his sons Donald Jr. and Eric in charge of them.
But he stepped away only from their management, not their profits. Trump has done his best to promote those businesses with his presence relentlessly.
During his first 514 days in office, he visited Trump properties on 159 of them.
At least two American embassies abroad have promoted Mar-a-Lago, on their websites. A national park in Virginia has offered Trump wine for sale. Kellyanne Conway publicly urged Americans to buy Ivanka Trump’s products on Fox News. Explaining the popularity of Trump’s Washington hotel, Conway told Politico that customers
“look at it as a piece of the president.” As demand rose, the Trump organization raised prices.
Mar-a-Lago, which Trump calls the “Winter White House,”
doubled its membership fee to $200,000. Trump International Hotel, whose managers market it as a destination for diplomats,
raised room rates almost 60 percent. The Republican National Committee rents space in Trump Tower. So does the Pentagon. So does China’s largest bank. The government of
Qatar this spring paid $6.5 million for an apartment in Trump World Tower — joining the governments of Saudi Arabia, India and Afghanistan there. China’s government is reportedly lending $500 million for a Trump-linked development project in Indonesia. China has also approved dozens of trademarks for Trump family businesses since he won the presidency.
Here's the kicker. Trump and his money-grabbing family are fully aware that what they're doing is not legal. In two “emoluments clauses,”
the Constitution forbids the president from taking money from individual states or from foreign governments. Responding to those restrictions,
the Trump organization has pledged to donate profits derived from foreign entities to the U.S. Treasury. In 2017, that donation was $151,000 — less than one-half of 1 percent of the $40 million in hotel income the president reported.
So please, don't even pretend to know that Trump and his family has benefited greatly financially from his presidency, it's absolutely obscene.
