Eric Lipton

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759 appearances 6 recordings 4 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 5 Aug

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The Daily · The Unprecedented Personal Profits of Trump’s Presidency · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

And so why now?

Because I found out that nobody cared.

I've heard the same thing from Eric Trump directly, is the outrage that the investigations that happened, even after they, from their perspective, went to some extent to try to limit the conflicts of interest during the first term.

And this time, they're just unrestrained.

Any opportunity that they want to pursue to make money, they're pursuing aggressively any place in the world.

So why do we care?

Why are we spending the time digging into this?

Because it's disturbing to the American tradition of,

where we are not a country where there's a mixing of the financial interest of the government officials and the financial benefit that comes from their actions.

Both Democratic and Republican administrations throughout American history, there have been efforts to separate the financial interest of the first family from the actions that the president is taking.

And we aren't seeing that here.

It's a bit of an open question.

I think that the true Trump devoted voter sees this guy as someone who's always made money and they celebrate his money making.

But then there are others who look at how much money the Trump family has brought in, $2.2 billion that Trump has in his financial report from 2025.

And they're just they're startled by that.

And at the same time, particularly that there are almost a million people who came in behind Trump at his urging and bought into one of his cryptocurrency coins.

And they lost almost $4 billion on that bet following Trump's lead.

So that's a lot of pissed off investors, honestly, many of whom are Trump followers.

I've also heard from some industry executives from the energy sector who are saying, you know, they're wondering whether or not they should partner with the Trumps in new business ventures because they don't want to end up being subpoenaed if the Democrats take the House or the Senate and we could have two years worth of oversight hearings trying to dig into all these deals.

And was there any malfeasance?

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