Peter Stone , The Guardian; ‘I have never seen such open corruption’: Trump’s crypto deals and loosening of rules shock observers
"“Self-enrichment is exactly what the founders feared most in a leader – that’s why they put two separate prohibitions on self-benefit into the constitution,” said former federal prosecutor Paul Rosenzweig. “Trump’s profiting from his presidential memecoin is a textbook example of what the framers wanted to avoid.”
Scholars, too, offer a harsh analysis of Trump’s crypto dealings.
“I have never seen such open corruption in any modern government anywhere,” said Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard University and an expert on authoritarian regimes who co-authored the book How Democracies Die.
Such ethical and legal qualms don’t seem to have fazed Trump or Sun."
