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Fortune
Nick Lichtenberg

‘A witches’ brew’: Washington’s ethics establishment reacts to Trump’s $2.2 billion windfall—they’re shocked but not surprised

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The disclosure of President Trump’s 2025 income—$2.2 billion, more than $1 billion of it from crypto—is shocking to the old D.C. establishment. But it’s not surprising.

The numbers are categorically different from anything American public life has seen before, and the institutions meant to respond to that fact are largely failing to do so.

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