Past President’s waited untill AFTER they have left office….
NOT Donald Trump…
And he don’t give a Shit…..
And NOBODY is stopping the convicted felon American President from doing it, either…
President Donald Trump is taking his efforts to use his office for personal enrichment — the very definition of corruption — to new levels Thursday night, selling face time to those who put money into his bank account by purchasing nearly $200 million worth of his branded souvenir crypto coins.
And while Trump will know who has parted with all that cash for the opportunity to spend a few hours to bend his ear, Americans will not — unless they can somehow match real names to monikers like “MeCo,” “CASE, “GAnt” and “REKT.”
Those four individuals or organizations, identified only by their usernames and crypto “wallet” addresses, collectively owned 2.7 million $TRUMP coins, worth a total of $38.3 million on Wednesday, based on the $14 price per coin that day.
Heather Cox Richardson, a Boston College historian, said Trump’s open corruption is unprecedented in American history. “Interestingly, the real financial corruption in an administration is around the president, not usually the president himself,” she said.
A White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the crypto coin business “has nothing to do with the White House.”…
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Trump began selling his new tokens three days before his inauguration. The coin, which has zero intrinsic value, soared in price to as high as $75, allowing 58 early buyers to make over $10 million each before the coins plummeted in value. They were selling for about $8 each before Trump announced his contest in late April to award a “gala” dinner at his golf resort in Sterling, Virginia, to the top 220 Trump coin purchasers, based on how much they held on average from Jan. 17 through May 15. The top 25 coin holders would also be invited to a “VIP” reception with Trump before the dinner and then a tour the following day. The contest website originally had promised a White House tour, but subsequently changed the page to delete the White House reference….
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How much, precisely, Trump is earning through these various schemes may never be known, because — unlike every other president in recent times — he has refused to release his tax returns to the public.
A recent Washington Post analysis found that Trump and his partners in the Trump coin business made $3 million in transaction fees since the contest was announced in April, and $43 million in fees and $312 million in coin sales since Jan. 17 — all despite the Constitution’s prohibition against presidents accepting income other than their salary….
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