Trump made a big show of donating his salary. All the while, he was charging taxpayers on the backend, out of public view.
That $392,000 here is the equivalent of a full year of presidential salary, and it's just one of his properties.
That $392,000 here is the equivalent of a full year of presidential salary, and it's just one of his properties.
https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1366500205261172745
The whole time he was in office, the businesses he still profited from charged taxpayers about $1 MILLION MORE than he would have earned from his presidential salary washingtonpost.com/politics/ballr…
The whole arrangement was an unconstitutional gimmick that he used as cover for a scheme that allowed him to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars from special interests and foreign governments that were trying to curry favor with him citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…
All told, the Trumps brought in more than $2 BILLION during their stint in "public service." citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…
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