Trump has amassed staggering wealth in ‘most openly corrupt’ presidency
Ethics experts and Democrats express alarm as Trump uses office to grow his personal fortune to âunprecedentedâ level Donald Trumpâs use of his second presidency to grow his personal fortune has alarmed legal and ethics experts and congressional Democrats as he has reaped an âunprecedentedâ $2.2bn in 2025 revenues by amassing big cryptocurrency holdings, benefiting from wealthy foreign interests, expanding his Truth Social business and more, while federal oversight of his actions has waned. Trump last year raked in at least $1.4bn from his crypto ventures according to financial disclosure forms he filed in June. Simultaneously, about one million investors in a Trump crypto scheme suffered almost $3.8bn in losses as their volatile crypto holdings tanked in value. Monetizing his presidency further this summer, Trumpâs Truth Social media business is pushing a new scheme that offers wealthy buyers special early access to his posts for a fee of $100,000 a month, which top Democrats and public interest groups say pose serious conflict of interest and corruption issues. Mark Warner, the Democratic senator of Virginia, in July wrote to six major Wall Street financial trade grou
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