Remember when the president didn’t make BILLIONS from the office?

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), has spent countless hours tracking and calculating Trump’s profits. At the end of his first term, CREW calculated that Trump made more than $1.6 billion in outside revenue and income during his four years as president. 

Recently, however, The New Yorker staff writer David D. Kirkpatrick tallied up a new number, encompassing ventures from both Trump’s first and second terms: $3.4 billion!

That is an astounding amount without any historical equivalent. But at the same time, it’s a new Trump normal. Of course he’s using his public office for private gain. Of course he’s launched another business venture. Don’t presidents get rich all the time? What’s the big deal?

The fact is, while this may feel like a new normal, nothing about it is normal, and it’s a real problem worthy of the American people’s attention.

While we are distracted with the daily chaos he creates, he and his family are looting the US Treasury and making a mockery of the Emoluments Clause, BUT, that is the least of our worries, as he systematically turns our hard won democracy into a dictatorship.

We’re just a bunch of frogs in a pot of water, on a slow boil…..