{"id":77351,"date":"2026-08-13T07:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T12:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/trump-has-amassed-staggering-wealth-in-most-openly-corrupt-presidency\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T07:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T12:56:10","slug":"trump-has-amassed-staggering-wealth-in-most-openly-corrupt-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/trump-has-amassed-staggering-wealth-in-most-openly-corrupt-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump has amassed staggering wealth in \u2018most openly corrupt\u2019 presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethics experts and Democrats express alarm as Trump uses office to grow his personal fortune to \u2018unprecedented\u2019 level <\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s use of his second presidency to grow his personal fortune has alarmed legal and ethics experts and congressional Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/08\/05\/nx-s1-5919997\/how-trump-made-an-estimated-2-2-billion-during-the-first-year-of-his-second-term\">as he has reaped <\/a>an \u201cunprecedented\u201d $2.2bn in 2025 revenues by amassing big cryptocurrency holdings, benefitting from wealthy foreign interests, expanding his Truth Social business and more, while federal oversight of his actions has waned.<\/p>\n<p>Trump last year raked in at least $1.4bn from his crypto ventures according to financial disclosure forms he filed in June. Simultaneously, about one million investors in a Trump crypto scheme suffered almost $3.8bn<a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydefendersfund.org\/resource\/seven-critical-revelations-from-president-trumps-financial-disclosure-report\/\"> in losses <\/a>as their volatile crypto holdings tanked in value.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/13\/trump-presidency-revenue-wealth\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethics experts and Democrats express alarm as Trump uses office to grow his personal fortune to \u2018unprecedented\u2019 level Donald Trump\u2019s use of his second presidency to grow his personal fortune has alarmed legal and ethics experts and congressional Democrats as he has reaped an \u201cunprecedented\u201d $2.2bn in 2025 revenues by amassing big cryptocurrency holdings, benefitting &#8230; <a title=\"Trump has amassed staggering wealth in \u2018most openly corrupt\u2019 presidency\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/trump-has-amassed-staggering-wealth-in-most-openly-corrupt-presidency\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump has amassed staggering wealth in \u2018most openly corrupt\u2019 presidency\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}