You make $400,000 every 70 minutes
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Last night on 60 Minutes , Donald Trump dodged the question of how his personal wealth increased $3 billion during his current presidency. Dan Alexander , an editor at Forbes magazine who's written a book on Trump, says that the increase is actually is $5 billion, for a total of $7.3 billion, and in a lengthy BlueSky thread , unrolled here , explains in remarkably easy-to-understand terms where the money came from. Spoiler: crypto, grift and licensing deals doing double-duty as bribes, and to a lesser extent Trump Media. This post title comes from the last point in Alexander's thread, where he
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