Trump’s For-Profit Presidency

Some types of sharks have to swim continuously to keep oxygen coming in; to be still is to perish. Donald Trump is similar, except his unceasing drive is trying to make money. He could no more stop merely because he’s running for president or serving as president than he could take a sabbatical from breathing.

The charges unveiled Thursday against his former fixer, Michael Cohen, suggest just how irrepressible his avarice is. Trump had sought real estate and other deals in Russia for three decades, and he had long wanted to put up a signature building in Moscow. “TRUMP TOWER-MOSCOW is next,” he tweeted after a 2013 visit there.

He bragged about the Russian big shots he knew. He said President Vladimir Putin might become his “new best friend.” Donald Jr. made several business trips to Russia. Son Eric was quoted as saying the Trump Organization had no funding problems: “We have pretty much all the money we need from investors in Russia.”

View the complete December 2 article by Steve Chapman on the Creators.com website here.