Critics of US President Donald Trump are pointing to a series of recent windfalls for the 79-year-old billionaire and his family as evidence of "brazen," historic corruption. Accusations of personal enrichment, influence peddling, and cronyism have dogged Trump since his first term in office, before which he famously stated: "A president can't have a conflict of interest."
But outrage reached a fever pitch this week after the president settled a legal case against his own government -- on exceptionally generous terms -- shortly after disclosing thousands of stock trades in recent months.
