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Pulitzer Prize­–winning reporter and dean of Trumpologists David Cay Johnston reveals years of eye-popping financial misdeeds by Donald Trump and his family.

While the world watched Donald Trump’s presidency in horror or delight, few noticed that his lifelong grifting quietly continued. Less than forty minutes after taking the oath of office, Trump began turning the White House into a money machine for himself, his family, and his courtiers.

More than $1.7 billion flowed into Donald Trump’s bank accounts during his four years as president. Foreign governments rented out whole floors of his hotel five blocks from the White House while lobbyists conducted business in the hotel’s restaurants. Payday lenders and other trade groups moved their annual conventions to Trump golf resorts. And individual favor seekers joined his private Mar-a-Lago club with its $200,000 admission fee in hopes of getting a few minutes with the President. Despite earning more than $1 million every day he was in office, Trump left the White House as he arrived—hard up for cash. More than $400 million in debt comes due by 2024, and Trump still lacks the resources to pay it back.

The Big Cheat takes you on a guided tour of how money flowed in and out of Trump’s hundreds of enterprises, showing in simple terms how his family and courtiers used his presidency to enrich themselves, even putting national security at risk. Johnston details the four most recent years of the corruption that has defined the Trump family since 1885 and reveals the costs of Trump’s extravagant lifestyle for American taxpayers.

Interesting, thanks for sharing and reputation given!

Two things.
Never read the book
Never voted for Trump. Actually I don't vote.

Trump must be the worst grifter in history since he lost one quarter of his wealth while president.
Following headlines are from the left wing outlets that hate him, which kind of refutes the book's title and your assertions.

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-t...ent-2021-3
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-net-worth...rt-1576845

Your post doesn't make any sense. I think you can be assured that a common grifter would be hard pressed to become a billionaire and President of the United States. In between the lines you seem to be saying that one path to becoming a billionaire and president in the US is to be a liar, a thief, be able to drive businesses to the ground and be a common grifter. (We know in Banana Republics it can happen but even then they must be superlative grifters and not common.) You may have a Udemy course in the making to amass your own legion of followers if all of that is true. Just thinking out loud.

Thinking that working together is going to solve world problems is naïve at best. Delusional is more like it. For as long as civilized man has existed, you would think they would have thought of and tried that already. So, history might have taught us that working together doesn't work all that well.

If you think hard about it, Trump may have been the byproduct of the world 'working together' (like the UN)[/align] all this time solving the serious problems you speak of.

Think even harder and you will realize it doesn't matter who is the President. The real people that run the county are the unelected bureaucrats that have entrenched themselves in every area of government.

These people have been 'working together' for a long time to make sure many aspects of our lives stay unresolved.

That's my one satoshi thought for today.