Likely now, into the high single digits of billions, for the family's personal coffers. Here's that all too UN-surprising story, from the Brits, at The Guardian:
. . .A crusading prosecutor in the Balkans comes under pressure to drop a big case. Vietnamese villagers learn they are to be evicted. A convicted crypto kingpin in the Gulf receives a pardon.
All have one thing in common: they appear to be connected to the Trump family’s campaign to amass riches around the world. Since Donald Trump’s re-election a year ago, warnings that his use of presidential power to advance personal interests is corroding American democracy have grown ever louder. What is less understood -- and perhaps even more dangerous -- is the damage this is doing everywhere else.
Trump’s eldest sons, Don Jr and Eric, formally the custodians of the family business, are conducting a global dealmaking blitz. They have broken ground on new golf courses, received permission for new skyscrapers, rented out the Trump brand, and in cryptocurrency they have embraced a venture with the capacity to bring in more than everything that has gone before. . . .
Kristofer Harrison, a senior foreign policy official under President George W. Bush -- who now runs an anti-corruption organisation called the Dekleptocracy Project -- is among those accusing the Trumps of operating a “pay to play” system that benefits those who do business with the president’s family.Such an approach could be manipulated, he said, especially by rival powers such as China. He said: “Trump has made authoritarians’ wildest dreams come true. . . .”
To anyone with a working fore-brain, the conflicts of interest -- and thus, the resulting payoffs/bribes are. . . obvious. But thus far, no court of law has found that the Trump Family™ is a. . . criminal enterprise. We all already know it is. Damn.
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