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Michael McAuliff
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Covering politics and policy in Washington for Modern Healthcare. Priors include HuffPost, New York Daily News, ABC News.
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It has been a lucrative year for the Trump family. In just the past six months or so, a bitcoin mining company headed by Eric Trump brought the family more than a hundred million dollars. Promotions by a major crypto exchange (whose founder the President recently pardoned) have positioned the family to pull in about a hundred and thirty-six million dollars. A convoluted deal that turned a company into a stockpile of Trump-linked digital tokens appears to have brought the family another five hundred and sixty-two million dollars. And crypto is hardly the only family business. The Trumps sold the use of their name to a Saudi real-estate company that is close to the royal family for a resort in the Maldives and two other new megaprojects inside the kingdom. Donald Trump, Jr., made millions by reinventing himself as an adviser or director to half a dozen companies. And President Trump, whose Administration regulates the banking and securities industries, filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase demanding five billion dollars—not as a deposit in the U.S. Treasury but as a check made out to Donald J. Trump. Donald Trump opening a bank safe. Illustration by Erik Carter This past summer, I set out to tally up just how much the Trumps have made off the Presidency—to sum it all up in a number. The total then was $3.4 billion. Nearly six months later, at the end of Trump’s first year back in the White House, I am updating my reporting: the total has now reached four billion dollars
January 31, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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To be clear, Bernie's amendment would have taken the money in the one big beautiful bill for ICE
January 30, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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"pressure from the American people got just about every member of the House and Senate to vote to release the files. Why haven't the whole thing been released?.. The longer Pam Bondi hides the truth from the American people, the more the American people ask, What are they trying to hide?"
January 30, 2026 at 6:38 PM