President Donald Trump is using the power of his office for personal financial gain like no other president in history, recent investigations of his finances reveal.
Relying on financial documents disclosed during his 2024 civil fraud trial, The New York Times discovered that Trump has rebounded from a shaky financial period prior to his reelection in November when most of his real estate ventures were losing money and a wave of legal judgments threatened to consume all of his cash.
Since then, Trump and his two eldest sons, Eric and Donald Jr., have refocused the family business on a series of foreign development deals, cryptocurrency partnerships and licensing deals leveraging the family name that have more than doubled his net worth to at least $5 billion and possibly as much as $10 b