Nyt: «Trump used the presidency to personally earn $1.4 billion» | EUROtoday

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The second time period of the US president Donald Trump was characterised by agreements, donations and cryptocurrency transactions which allowed him and his household to build up not less than 1.4 billion {dollars}and the determine continues to rise. This was revealed by an investigation by the editorial board of the New York Times that has simply been launched.

According to the reconstruction of US journalists, Trump has invested all his vitality in looking for out “how much money people, companies and other nations are willing to put in his pockets in the hope of bending government power to serve their own interests”.

The investigation’s tally consists of solely his documented earnings — the $1.4 billion determine wouldn’t be a whole accounting. “It is impossible to know how often Trump makes official decisions, in part or wholly, because he wants to get richer,” the board writes. «And that is exactly the issue. A tradition of corruption is pernicious as a result of it’s not solely a deviation from authorities within the public curiosity, however can be the destruction of the democratic legitimacy of the state.”

Dal licensing legato al brand Trump worldwide, for example, «The Donald» would have earned at least 23 million dollars. For the creation of a documentary dedicated to the figure of the first lady Melania Trumpthe president’s family would have collected 28 million dollars from the e-commerce platform Amazon. On an overall level, according to the New York Times, the media tech company they would have paid something like that into the Trump coffers 90.5 million dollars.

The state of Qatarthen, as is understood, he gave the American president a $400 million airplane in order that it may be included within the fleet of the Air Force One. Trump plans to proceed utilizing the plane, in a private capability, on the finish of his time period. And then there’s the crux cryptocurrenciesfrom which it’s estimated that «The Donald» has raised one thing like 867 million {dollars}. If you do the mathematics, based on the New York Times, Trump would have profited from his return to the presidency in an quantity equal to 16,822 instances the median earnings of US households.