Heilemann: Trump’s Using the White House To Make Money While President

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HEILEMANN: “The guy spent the previous decade with his friend, Michael Cohen, running around the world trying to not just do what — to do what he had done in the United States, which was use the Trump name to make more money. This was a great opportunity to increase not just his profile, but his international profile and to be able to use this as a business opportunity after he presumably lost either as the nominee or in the general election. He would then go on and be in a great position to maximize revenues, maximize profits going forward on the basis of this. With Trump, the thing you would have thought, though, any normal businessman running for president with those idea, was that once he won the presidency, he would abandon those things and say, 'Well, I didn't think I was going to win, but now I'm president and I've got to act like president.' But, no, he went into the White House thinking, 'Well, I’m not going to — I got into this for the money, I’m not going to abandon that primary objective.' So he has used the White House in ways that we are now seeing, people have been talking about for a year and a half, he’s using the White House to make money while being president and to try to enhance his opportunities to make more money after being the president.”