Self-dealing Trump is Kleptocrats’ Role Model

Expand US President Donald Trump shown prior to the 2019 G-7 summit in southern France, during a lunch with French President Emmanuel Macron. © 2019 Ludovic Marin/AP Images In announcing he would not, after all, award the 2020 summit of the Group of Seven major industrial nations to his own resort in Florida, President Donald Trump tweeted, “I thought I was doing something very good for our Country,” and disparaged the “Crazed and Irrational Hostility” of his critics. Even in backing down, Trump rejects any expectation that he should separate his public office from his business interests.…

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