NYT’s Lipton: Trump, Effectively Through His Sons, Owns Businesses That Are Personally Profiting Off of Regulatory Decisions

RUSH EXCERPT:
LIPTON: "I mean, this is a nation that we’ve always had campaign fund-raising where people are taking donations, but these donations are going to their political causes. What we’ve never see before at this scale in modern American history or really in American history overall, is a president who is effectively, through his sons, owns businesses that are personally profiting off of regulatory decisions that he’s making. And the conflicts of interest here are just, you know, the word we don’t like to use too much in Washington among reporters is unprecedented, but these truly are unprecedented, and he is appointing the head of the securities and exchange commission at the same time as the S.E.C. Is shutting down investigations of some of his business partners. An investor in one of the companies that’s partnered with his company with world liberty financial, he’s offering 220 people the right to come and have dinner with him at his golf course in Virginia. At the same time these are people trying to influence his policies and, in fact, have stated so, they’re buying his crypto and effectively giving him money so they can get access to the president of the United States. It’s really just something we’ve never seen before and it’s actually quite hard to track. There’s so much happening simultaneously."