On Friday’s episode of Washington Week, moderator Jeffrey Goldberg and his panelists reflected on President Donald Trump’s recent actions mixing personal benefit with public office.
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One example they discussed happened on May 22, when Trump hosted a gathering at his Virginia golf club with the highest-paying customers of his personal cryptocurrency business. The dinner was held to boost sales of his cryptocurrency coin that launched days before the inauguration.
“No, I mean, there really isn't. Nothing comes close at this point,” Baker said. “There have been presidents who have monetized the presidency on some level or another, used it to benefit their family businesses or whatever."
"It happened in the last administration, let's face it. Hunter Biden certainly traded off his father's name, but it was penny-ante compared to what we're talking about now," added Baker.
If, as was indicated in the program, the corruption is baked in and unusable politically then why was the highly inflated Hunter Biden "scandal" so effective? Is it simply Democratic capitulation or a mainstream media that creates double standards and false equivalences?
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Stop comparing this slime to Biden Peter🤬 you also forget that it was all run by the ethics committee approved
What is surprising is that Trump has yet to sign an EO targeting The Atlantic.
But the dinner sparked bipartisan concerns that Trump is selling access to the presidency for personal profit.
“Is there any precedent for what we're seeing in American history?” Goldberg asked Peter Baker of The New York Times.