Documents released by the House Democrats on January 4, 2024 and reported by the New York Times last week “revealed” that during his first two years as president, Donald Trump’s “businesses received at least 7.8 million from 20 foreign governments” in overseas transactions with most of it coming from China.
This reporting was not only old news, but it barely scratched the surface of what we already knew about Trump’s monetization of the White House for the benefit of the Trump Organization as well as family members, thanks at least in part to the investigative work of the Times, the Washington Post, the nonprofit government accountability group CREW, and the authors of The Grifter’s Club.
