Journalist confirms Donald Trump may have ‘stolen’ $1.7 billion from the government while serving as president

Trump may have ‘stolen’ $1.7 billion from the government while serving as president.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston details the full extent of Trump’s ill-gotten gains from 2017 to 2021 in his new book, The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family. During a Monday interview on CNN, Johnston discussed how the Trump Organization earned at least $1.7 billion during the time that Trump was president.

Johnston arrived at the figure by looking into financial disclosures that Trump was legally required to make while he was in office. Despite the law saying that these disclosures had to be published, Trump had tried to keep the records private.

an expert calculated and revealed how much money flowed through Donald Trump’s businesses while serving as president.

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston revealed the shocking amount of money Trump made while serving as president in an interview on CNN.

“A new book is pulling back the curtain on how much former President Trump enriched himself and his family while he was in office, finding that nearly $1.7 billion in revenue flowed through him and his organizations during his four years as commander-in-chief,” Keilar reported.

“Tell us how much Donald Trump profited — and how you were able to get to this number,” Keilar asked.

“Donald did everything he could to make sure the taxpayers were putting money into his businesses. Hundreds of millions of dollars,” he added.

Johnston’s findings confirm a report from earlier this year by the nonprofit government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).

In a report published in February, CREW noted that Trump had frequently bragged about donating his presidential income back to the treasury. “Far from being a sacrifice,” CREW’s Jordan Libowitz and Caitlin Moniz wrote, “the donation was merely a fig leaf to cover up four years of brazen corruption.”