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Profiting from Government Didn’t Begin with Trump
10 minutes Posted Aug 26, 2026 at 10:18 pm.
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Trump has made his family billions by courting foreign and corporate money and accepting extravagant gifts while in office. But he didn’t bring self-enrichment to Washington, he simply made it much harder to ignore.
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