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Lawfare Archive: Trump's Money and National Security

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Trump's Foreign Policy on Turkey Is Financial Enrichment

Despite Trump's pledge of no new foreign deals, he clearly continues to have significant foreign entanglements and makes enough money in foreign countries to need to pay substantial taxes there. The framers of the Constitution actually were sort of worried about exactly this thing, right? The idea that a president is supposed to take a salary, a president isn't supposed to accept a monument because you didn't want the perception or reality of these foreign financial interests influencing actual policy decisions.

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