Profits outstrip protests as Donald Trump and family monetise US presidency

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People protest as a guest arrives for a private dinner with president Donald Trump and buyers of his cryptocurrency in Sterling, Virginia last week. Photograph: Elizabeth Frantz/New York Times When Hillary Clinton was first lady, a furore erupted over reports that she had once made $100,000 from a $1,000 investment in cattle futures. Even though it had happened a dozen years before her husband became president, it became a scandal that lasted for weeks and forced the White House to initiate a review. Thirty-one years later, after dinner at US president Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago estate, Jeff Bezos agreed to finance...