A race played out across the globe, from Europe to the Middle East and the U.S., led by Eric Trump & Don Trump Jr. as they pushed new ways to profit off of the Trump name & Trump's status as POTUS. The NYT today investigates this extraordinary drive to cash in. nyti.ms/4iNzTYv - ThreadSky

ericlipton.nytimes.com • 5 days ago

A race played out across the globe, from Europe to the Middle East and the U.S., led by Eric Trump & Don Trump Jr. as they pushed new ways to profit off of the Trump name & Trump's status as POTUS. The NYT today investigates this extraordinary drive to cash in. https://nyti.ms/4iNzTYv

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alanpi.bsky.social•5 days ago

Grifters will grift...

rabinpw.bsky.social•5 days ago

So much grifting. All they know is to make money in the worst way.

teddyz56.bsky.social•4 days ago

Wouldn't it be the greatest thing in the world if a professional, big league hacker got into the Trumps accounts and drained them all except for leaving them $1???? Priceless!!!!!

malakim2099.bsky.social•5 days ago

Delightful. Now if only articles like this were reported PRIOR TO HIS BEING ELECTED.

What, did all the graft that happened the LAST TIME HE WAS PRESIDENT suddenly vaporize? Did that not matter? Was it not worth column space? Did people not need to know?

dueteronomy.bsky.social•5 days ago

Ohhhh…but the notorious HUNTER BIDEN. The American Media SUCKS. They’re day traders of biased & unfair media coverage.

jjurek.bsky.social•4 days ago

“Grifters Gone Wild”. Suspect a lot of this happened in the first admin but not to this extreme.

petershulman.bsky.social•5 days ago

David Sacks as the face of “younger, hipper Republicans” has a particularly funny, but also super creepy feel to it.

petershulman.bsky.social•5 days ago

Is this where he’s gonna try to build his own harem?

pashasher.bsky.social•5 days ago

Throw enough sh%t at the Wakl, something’s bound to stick

traciehh.bsky.social•5 days ago

Infuriating 🤬

callherjt.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump should have to pay out of pocket for his Middle Eastern trip. It's just to check on his personal investments.

#resist
#fucktrump

michellemyhell.bsky.social•5 days ago

Drives me crazy how obsessed MAGA was w/ Hunter Biden & yet... but I know by now I should just accept their culty hypocrisy & blindness.

michellemyhell.bsky.social•5 days ago

Fucking insanely egregious corruption ...🤯

lwool.bsky.social•5 days ago

So, great job, @nytimes.com for following this after systematically badgering Biden to QUIT BECAUSE HE’s OLD. WTF did you think trumps were gonna do when they got back into power? JFC

jimzopf.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is what they meant with „drain the swamp“ - in their own pockets

chellehileman.bsky.social•5 days ago

The Trump presidency is a re-make of former Mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick. We’re watching corruption of an unprecedented scale. The US is being used on all levels of the Trump family to deepen their coffers.

butterandbooze.bsky.social•5 days ago

More theatrical reviews of the fascist takeover of America. Try to do better @nytimes.com

charliebe82.bsky.social•5 days ago

And this is just one of the reasons I have zero sympathy for MAGAS who are now feeling financial strain in their small businesses and farms. You can't afford the basics and he is raking in the money from personal deals in other countries. What dupes.

zengali.bsky.social•5 days ago

But Hunter Biden's Laptop!!!

auburnmay.bsky.social•5 days ago

Jared too… just more discreet about it.

sgilley02.bsky.social•4 days ago

I read the article. That entire family is corrupt. I don’t ever want to hear another word about Hunter Biden.

not-the-lawyer.bsky.social•5 days ago

It’s a good thing Fox is covering this in depth.

Oh wait

struthsydney.bsky.social•4 days ago

What an insult to military personnel who were killed or maimed in Iraq. Trump & his son's are emulating Saddam Hussein & his sons by suppressing opposition, & leveraging his Presidency to threaten & bribe businesses to increase their wealth.

packrfan4.bsky.social•5 days ago

And here we all thought Trump was running for re-election because it the only way for him to avoid going to jail. Obviously, it was much more than that.

joa55.bsky.social•4 days ago

Family of crooks , hope they all end up in Alcatraz

northgirl.bsky.social•5 days ago

I can hardly wait for the day we don't have to hear about the unending grifting of this deplorable family.

melchisidech.bsky.social•5 days ago

Since Fox was on the “Biden Crime Family” story for four years I’m sure they are covering the trump crime family story.

mfelps.bsky.social•4 days ago

Laws. The word you're looking for is laws, not norms. You are fully aware that a bunch of this stuff is illegal and just too gutless to say so.

theeagles.bsky.social•4 days ago

Unbelievable how bold they are not afraid of anyone stopping their cash grab!

sundwoman.bsky.social•3 days ago

I look forward to seeing their mugshots for corruption and crimes against the United States

hadiedas.bsky.social•4 days ago

But Hunter’s laptop 🤷🏻‍♀️

bluesttomato.bsky.social•5 days ago

I remember when the NYT would have called this corruption. But mustn’t anger dear leader…

jandom.bsky.social•5 days ago

Here’s the thing, not all humans or countries think the trump name is a positive thing. There are many who would boycott anything attached to it. Sycophantic behaviour by anyone is disgusting.

jamieosy.bsky.social•5 days ago

We are no better now.. as corrupt as the rest of them.

okaybryan.bsky.social•5 days ago

Actually this is what the NYT is doing today. Great job on the accountability front, Eric!

joykat.bsky.social•4 days ago

What about Ivanka?

davidsp72.bsky.social•5 days ago

Another detailed, well-reported piece that reaches the obvious conclusion of corruption. Yet the word “corruption” never appears.

But kudos for getting that hilarious David Sacks quote about “younger, hipper” Republicans.

jimbrowski12.bsky.social•5 days ago

Daddy might be destroying the greatest economy in the world, but Uday and Usay are gonna get theirs!!

patmills.bsky.social•4 days ago

Eric and Don Jr could get JOBS! They don't becauuuse....
I am sure they are in great demand for employment opportunities.

lynndaniels.bsky.social•5 days ago

😡

jacquejackie.bsky.social•5 days ago

TY.

janback52.bsky.social•4 days ago

Thank you so much for your excellent reporting. Our country owes you and your colleagues so much gratitude🙏♥️

underscore-proto.bsky.social•5 days ago

Imagine if your newspaper had the guts to call any of this what it is instead always trying to normalize with classical framing. Will your ultrarich lords ever learn? Will the plebes that think they're doing essential work?

bassoman.bsky.social•5 days ago

Hmmm. Was Hunter Biden this successful? Once a carpet bagger, always a carpet bagger.

pataz1.bsky.social•5 days ago

Congrats to the NYTimes for helping make this possible!

cmcs52.bsky.social•5 days ago

Greed, pure greed - all for the benefit of this family.

mky603.bsky.social•5 days ago

Funny that the MAGATS are good with this.

concerned2.bsky.social•5 days ago

Emoluments clause

Investigations

Arrests

Prison time

mbr-too.bsky.social•5 days ago

Trump family corruption on full display!

mlh-3.bsky.social•4 days ago

🤬

alicethewonderdog.bsky.social•5 days ago

What they claimed without evidence that the Biden’s were doing they do openly at massive scale.

dakotapiano.bsky.social•5 days ago

We can't normalize this. The level of corruption is staggering yet they act like this is how it should work. And as others have mentioned, the hypocrisy over Hunter Biden is off the charts.

wanderingpen.bsky.social•5 days ago

Now we know what he’s drilling for.

nrothont.bsky.social•5 days ago

Thanks for the gift article.

swgeneralmills.bsky.social•5 days ago

Grift Article

georgeswan.bsky.social•5 days ago

Everybody by now should know that Trump family is naturally corrupt. So don’t be surprised. By the time Trump finishes his term of office corruption will be so interwoven into US business and society that it will be difficult to get out of it.
Corruption is like cancer.

bklynmichael42.bsky.social•5 days ago

Just can’t bring yourself to use any form of the word “corrupt,” can you?

ktownguido.bsky.social•4 days ago

Let them! When Trump refuses to pay the contractors like he has done his entire life, they won’t take him to court, they’ll take his head off.

bilbobagginsviii.bsky.social•5 days ago

Believe me when I say this, those people in talks with the grifter family brats, now know more about the future of the US economy than congress or the people!

bilbobagginsviii.bsky.social•5 days ago

Er "GRIFT ARTICLE"

bilbobagginsviii.bsky.social•5 days ago

MUGS!!

strummer7.bsky.social•5 days ago

So was it wrong of Hunter to do what he did?

batgirl2005.bsky.social•5 days ago

How much money does this fucking family want or need? They want every damn penny they can get no matter how illegal it is! Donald Trump is as anti-American as Hitler, Putin, etc! #StopTrumpNow!

michaelkw.bsky.social•5 days ago

At this point it’s cheaper to reach a deal with them and pay them to go away.

starmann.bsky.social•5 days ago

Maybe your headline could be less fawning and your reporting less credulous

hankhoffmanct.bsky.social•4 days ago

Well, why not? Jared Kushner got about $2 billion from the Saudis after Trump left office & neither the Biden administration nor Dems in Congress saw fit to investigate why Jared merited $2 billion.

My own senator, @blumenthal.senate.gov, was chair of Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations... 1/2

hankhoffmanct.bsky.social•4 days ago

... of the Senate Homeland Security Committee & had unilateral subpoena power but didn't investigate. & there are certainly national security questions about why the Saudi's gave Jared $2b.

Never holding people accountable encourages corruption. 2/2

monicavittles.bsky.social•5 days ago

Few parallels? No parallels. Does anyone really believe that Billy Carter's deals had ANY impact on President Carter's policies? Does anyone really doubt that the Trump family's open solicitation of bribes will NOT influence Trump's policies? Big, big difference. Yuge.

sunflowerista.bsky.social•5 days ago

You hadn’t heard how Joe Biden loosened up regulations on Big Gouache because of Hunter’s painting business? (/s)

sunflowerista.bsky.social•5 days ago

But but but but but Burisma!

/s

luckybsky75.bsky.social•4 days ago

Tis is exactly what the Republicans went after Hunter for

twinpearls.bsky.social•5 days ago

kieranhannon.bsky.social•5 days ago

Biggest grift ever after kushner’s billions from the Middle East

bobgoblin8.bsky.social•5 days ago

Whoever gives trump money is wasting his life making money. Or has money to throw around and should be taxes up their ass.

bobgoblin8.bsky.social•5 days ago

Trump came up with slogan fraud, waste, and abuse because it's what he learned with in his household. He's very familiar with it.

freehuman67.bsky.social•5 days ago

Almost as bad as Hunter Biden and Burisma.

barrybarnes.bsky.social•5 days ago

bot = blocked

freehuman67.bsky.social•5 days ago

Oh.... I forgot, we are not supposed to talk about the Biden crime families corruption. My bad.

dontinnovate.bsky.social•5 days ago

The Nepo Times now reporting on the corruption you helped usher in. They’re going to turn on you soon too.

redstonewarrior.bsky.social•5 days ago

What do we expect, they are profiteers from top to bottom: leveraging everything they can to make money including felony mug shot:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mug_shot_of_Donald_Trump

bluedotteacher.bsky.social•5 days ago

Great reporting

askmetomorrow.bsky.social•4 days ago

🤔

jofromeurope.bsky.social•5 days ago

Corruption is off the charts.

59psych.bsky.social•4 days ago

And the grifting goes on and on…How much money/stuff does a person need?

bthompsonschreiber.bsky.social•5 days ago

😡

ericlipton.nytimes.com•5 days ago

Today's story with my NYT colleague David Yaffe-Bellany lands on the homepage this morning and is already on A1 in print today. Please read it. And share. Here is the free link again: https://nyti.ms/4iNzTYv

awilm.bsky.social•5 days ago

Few parallels or no parallels?

emal29.bsky.social•5 days ago

Thank you. But please let’s see multiple stories repeated/hammered about this blatant foreign linked corruption related directly to 47 POTUS family in the NYT daily for weeks on end…above the fold…like with other politicians (such as “but her emails’, HB etc.). This is far more serious. Make it so!

yohannanx.bsky.social•5 days ago

Why thank him? In the next post he literally starts spinning for Trump saying it’s not actually a big deal, everyone does it, etc.

lefort8pamila.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yes it’s conflict period cuz it is all about $$.. ugh. Hope they don’t want involve..

turk1820.bsky.social•4 days ago

Oh, well as long as he repeats “No conflicts!” over and over I guess there’s no conflicts!

rootysmom.bsky.social•5 days ago

These countries are not our allies.

epistemicrisis.bsky.social•5 days ago

Congrats on the front page, above the fold 👍🏻

ericlipton.nytimes.com•5 days ago

Relatives of presidents including Billy Carter (brother of President Jimmy Carter) and Neil Bush (brother of President George W. Bush), along with Hunter Biden have had business dealings that have created questions about potential conflicts of interest. But never anything as intense as Trump blitz

mlawry76.bsky.social•4 days ago

Imagine the reaction if Hunter was standing in front of a backdrop like the pic on the left side.

mbalimo63.bsky.social•3 days ago

Intense?, don't you think you might be a little understated !!!

ohweebeasties.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is how you know their "concern" about Hunter Biden was total horse shit.

triggeredbytrump.bsky.social•4 days ago

It’s plain old corruption. Don’t you think you’re normalizing it not calling it what it is?

bjkeefe.bsky.social•5 days ago

Leaning a little too hard into the bothsiderism here, I think. Not only is the scale difference off the charts, this is the first time the president himself has been doing this sort of thing while in office.

epistemicrisis.bsky.social•4 days ago

But do the Trump kids have Laptops 🧐🧐🧐

ericlipton.nytimes.com•5 days ago

The visits by Donald J. Trump in Hungary, Bulgeria, Serbia and Romania includes "Trump Business Vision" paid speeches, but also meeting with top government officials, such as the PRESIDENT of Serbia, who made a roast pig for Don Jr.

zengali.bsky.social•5 days ago

I read that as made a roast pig OF Don Jr.

eex97623.bsky.social•5 days ago

Vučić roasted a pig? Like Eric Trump pours concrete.

andeu.bsky.social•5 days ago

Spectating with hand in pocket indeed doesn't count as helping🙄

dmptrmpnow.bsky.social•5 days ago

In Trumpworld wouldn’t that be considered cannibalism?

hellomuself78.bsky.social•4 days ago

What about this, bomb threats, suppression and dt having software?

https://harpers.org/archive/2012/11/how-to-rig-an-election/

benblumoehr.bsky.social•4 days ago

Has anybody ever seen Vučić and Michael Gove in the same room at the same time?

leydene.bsky.social•4 days ago

Made a roast pig of Don jr.

cdwilsher.bsky.social•5 days ago

That's because foreign leaders believe the Trumps will still be in power in 2029 and thereafter. Usually, there's no point in bribing a US president (especially a 2nd term president) because soon they'll be gone, but not with the Trump Family.

erikkennedy.com•5 days ago

Don't even *dream* of both-sidesing this.

davidbirmingham.bsky.social•5 days ago

So what would be the guardrails against this? Are there any? Is it because the rest of the GOP is unwilling or afraid to stand up to Trump. Clearly some type of reforms are needed to prevent this.

golfwriterkiel.bsky.social•5 days ago

OMG, here we go again with the chronic both-sidesing of what is literally an unprecedented unconstitutional scheme of corruption, bribery, and extortion. FFS, have you learned nothing???

capkat.bsky.social•5 days ago

Ya, but where's Hunter? Ethics and laws only apply to Biden and Dems.

zoemom.bsky.social•5 days ago

Can we just stop paying Congress?

cindylouwho.bsky.social•5 days ago

They are building their exile resort.

joannehansen.bsky.social•4 days ago

But America First, right?

jajiswank.bsky.social•5 days ago

Shame and share.

equalunderlaw.bsky.social•4 days ago

Based on my experience in the hotel industry, these properties are unlikely to get built. Trump & his family typically make all their money on these deals by stripping out "development fees" and "design fees," work that precedes actual construction. It's legalized bribery.

mblehrhoff.bsky.social•5 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7b57uzyi2cq6fbzsairuv2d4/post/3logasreiqk2m

swedejoy.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is illegal, unethical, deeply un-American, and prison is in their future.

ranmull.bsky.social•5 days ago

Like daddy, like Sonny’s!

martina47.bsky.social•5 days ago

Ask Trump to resign, why won't you

contractjames.bsky.social•5 days ago

Can someone ask MAGA how whatever the “Biden Crime Family” did was worse than this?

barrybarnes.bsky.social•5 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/barrybarnes.bsky.social/post/3lnjd5botcc2j

ossiansfolly.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is why Trump supports Israel and Israel is going to permanently take Gaza. For supporting Israel the Trump Org gets prime real estate.

toimaker.bsky.social•5 days ago

“Race to cash in” = corruption. And the fact that you won’t say it is part of how we got here.

cupcakeguru.bsky.social•5 days ago

Thanks for focusing on HER EMAILS and HIS AGE and sending Maggie to write fluff pieces about this guy. Now that NYT is trying to journalism again, it seems like you guys missed something along the way.

mmorgenschoen.bsky.social•5 days ago

“this extraordinary drive to cash in” is called “corruption”, and if the president is doing it, it’s “unconstitutional”. do you know these words? do you know how to use them?

mmorgenschoen.bsky.social•5 days ago

and this is why trump won’t leave the white house but in a coffin. without the presidency their business collapses, and it won’t matter how much they’ll already have raked in when his term ends. greed is never satisfied.

lynnevere.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Isn't this illegal?

foriegnanddomestic.bsky.social•4 days ago

The grift goes on. Did the Biden crime family have 500 shell companies? Now bitcoin - soon it will be traded on the Texas Stock Exchange and we can launder the cartel money here.

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