John Lyons
speaker
231 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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We know famously that Jimmy Carter did that with his peanut farm.
We know that Richard Nixon, in fact, had to address on television the fact that he accepted the present of a dog.
He accepted the present of a dog and he had to actually explain that he'd received that gift.
And so usually presidents have been extremely careful not to be seen to be or to be making much money.
In fact, we know it's on the public record that it looks like when Bill Clinton left office,
He left office with less money than when he arrived.
A lot of that, of course, was all of the legal bills that he paid for the various legal cases that he faced while he was president.
Most presidents have gone on to make money afterwards, you know, big book deals of people like Barack Obama made a huge book deal.
But we haven't seen really a president make this sort of money ever.
in office.
And that, amongst many, many other things, makes Donald Trump a unique president.
Well, that's part of the extraordinary aspect of Donald Trump.
It's all out there.
It's part of his political genius in the sense of being able to, as he says, I can basically get away with anything.
He's famously said that because he's saying this on nighttime television to Americans about this deal or this crypto deal or Bitcoin.
People think it must be okay.
But there's two particular sort of deals that, to me, explain or show the potential conflicts of interest that I think are at play under the Trump administration.
And the first one was a deal with Vietnam.
While Vietnam was negotiating with President Trump over what tariffs they would have imposed upon them, as all countries did negotiate with the Americans...
The Prime Minister of Vietnam, Pham Minh Chinh, appeared alongside Donald Trump's son, Eric, at a ceremony marking the start of a Trump-branded golf resort development in the country's north.
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