Profiting from Government Didn’t Begin with Trump

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Tags: Corporate Welfare, Politics

08/26/2026 Connor O'Keeffe

Trump has made his family billions by courting foreign and corporate money and accepting extravagant gifts while in office. But he didn’t bring self-enrichment to Washington, he simply made it much harder to ignore.

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Profiting from Government Didn’t Begin with Trump