The new president and first lady are only days into their second administration and already look set to benefit financially from a number of ventures, an expert said
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Donald and Melania Trump “mean to earn as much cash as possible” during their time in the White House, they warned that the dogs and the Mavens warned.
The new president and first lady are only days into their second administration and already are looking set to benefit financially from a number of ventures that experts say are ethically problematic.
In the days before he took office, the couple launched meme coins that triggered a record-breaking crypto rally that saw the market surge by more than half a trillion dollars over the last week.
Lisa Gilbert, co-president of the liberal group Public Citizen, told CNN that the second Trump administration likely wouldn’t pay “lip service” to the ethics guardrails that were in place during his first.
“This time, I have the impression that gloves are disabled, and have no goal of behaving with the decorum and moral criteria of other administrations,” Gilbert said on the network. “They really need to do as much as imaginable to the back of the American taxpayer. “
On Tuesday Trump was challenged over his new cryptocurrency and asked by a reporter whether he would continue to sell products that benefit him during his presidency.
“Well, I don’t know if he took credit for it. I don’t know where it is,” Trump responded. “I don’t know much more than I presented it. I heard that it was very successful. I didn’t check it, where is it today?”
When reporter the president that the cryptocurrency had made “billions,” Trump shrugged.
“Several billion? It’s peanuts for those guys. “
Norm Eisen, a former Ethics Advisor of the White House of Obama, told CNN that cryptocurrency is a “recipe for a moral disaster. “
“Trump is taking on new conflicts in real time,” Eisen, a vocal Trump critic, said. “Any foreign government that wants to influence Donald Trump can just buy his meme coin in large quantities and let him know that they did.”
The first girl also has iron plates. After last year’s memoirs, it also has a Amazon documentary of $ 40 million in progress, in addition to the methamphetamine piece that presented the day before the inauguration of Trump.
“Amazon does not provide any delivery to Melania Trump when Donald Trump seemed politically in January 2021,” said Eisen, adding that the agreement “seems to be more of Jeff Bezos healing the favor of Donald Trump. “
The Business Circle of relatives, the Trump organization, is supervised through Eric Trump. He said that the company would continue to conclude agreements with interest abroad, according to CNN, however, that it would not conclude new agreements with governments.
Any profits made from foreign government entities would be tracked and donated to the U.S. Treasury, the company reportedly pledged.
For the fourth time, the Saudi-backed Liv Golf League tournament will be held at Trump National Doral Miami in April, however, this is the first time the occasion will be held while the Republican is in office, according to CNN.
The Independent has reached out to the White House for comment.
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