Is Trump Inc. The President's Vulnerablity?
New York magazine|June 12–25, 2017

A group of enterprising lawyers thinks it might be, whether all roads lead to Russia or not.

Andrew Rice
Is Trump Inc. The President's Vulnerablity?

THIS SPRING, as President Trump fired FBI director James Comey; as his son in-law, Jared Kushner, came under scrutiny for his secret conversations with Russians,including a bank executive close to Vladimir Putin; as The Wall Street Journal reported on the same bank’s murky connection to a foreign Trump development; as the commander-in-chief used his private club at Mar-a-Lago to host the Chinese president, to the delight of its dues-paying members (while also ordering a missile strike on Syria); as the House sought documents from Trump’s favored lender,Deutsche Bank, and the Treasury Department unit that monitors money laundering agreed to share financial records with the Senate Intelligence Committee; and as even Republicans like Lindsey Graham started to talk about investigating Trump’s finances, it began to occur to many people that the president’s defiant refusal to separate himself from his tangle of international business interests might represent something more ominous than mere stubbornness, that his inveterate hucksterism might not be a simple personality quirk or an implausible selling point of his successful campaign, but the fatal weakness of his presidency.

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