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It's been clear that the President and his family have been profiting hugely during Mr.

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But today, the New York Times editorial board published an estimate of just how much they've raked in over the past 12 months.

By their accounting, it's at least $1.4 billion.

Now, that includes income from licensing Trump's name overseas real estate projects, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars from investments in cryptocurrencies.

The money that Amazon paid Melania Trump the family.

For a documentary about Melania Trump, New York Times investigative reporter Russ Buettner is here.

I mean, I studied Donald Trump's finances, including obtaining his tax returns of some colleagues for over a 20 year period.

And this amount is really greater than the sum total of everything he made from his inheritance from being on the Apprentice and from all the licensing deals while he was on the Apprentice.

It's more than he ever made in his whole life.

I think it's those things were his big profit centers because his business performance was uneven.

So those three things that require really his golden days, this is more than that all in one year.

They're open for business and they've been expanding things on a regular basis, especially into cryptocurrencies.

They recently just transformed their social media company into a bitcoin repository company, which is a cryptocurrency.

And now they're moving that into some sort of power generation company.

But they are just rapidly trying to gather every sort of business that they can to monetize his period.

I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, Donald Trump Jr.

I don't think the club that Donald Trump Jr.

Set up in Washington, which is like a private members club, which essentially kind of promises access for paying members of the club to government officials and cabinet secretaries.

And that really seems kind of quaint compared to what they're doing in cryptocurrencies, where it looks like over the last year they've personally pocketed the family and a few partners somewhere in the neighborhood of $800 million or more.

And there's linkage, a lot of linkage between the businesses and places the U.S.

I mean, a lot of this money comes, the cryptocurrency money comes to them anonymously.

You can tell that from the exchanges it goes through.

And a lot of it, as you said, comes from countries where they have a real interest in it.

There's been some direct conflicts, especially with a big deal that came through the United Arab Emirates.

They decided to use a Trump cryptocurrency to pay for a $2 billion investment.

Which is, I mean, no, very few people would have chosen to use that particular cryptocurrency.

It was brand new and struggling and unproven.

That will put about 80 to 100 million doll in the pockets of the Trumps.

And within a few months, within a few weeks, actually

Trump decided to overturn a policy that had Long rejected the UAE's pleas to get AI computer chips from us because they were thought to be too close to China.

He just did away with that and then pardoned the fellow who was on the other end of the deal.

So there's like two conflicts in one deal.

Expanding on the conversation, another data point.

President Trump gave the crypto industry its biggest policy win last July when he signed a bill he was pushing to federally regulate a type of cryptocurrency called stablecoins.

I pledged that we would bring back American liberty and leadership and make the United States the crypto capital of the world.

And with today signing the future of crypto and the crypto industry, the US Dollar working together because they really are hand in hand is going to be stronger and bigger and better than ever before.

Critics raised conflict of interest concerns given President Trump and his family's vast crypto holdings.

Joining me now is journalist and co founder of Lift Our Voices, Gretchen Carlson, also CNN political commentators Anna Navarro and David Urban.

I mean, do they fall into the category of, you know, shocking, not surprising, 1 million, 10 billion?

I mean, no, not, not necessarily surprising, but, but here's my take on this.

I don't think his base cares about this because he was already a billionaire on paper, at least when he originally won the first election, they didn't care about that.

They didn't care about it the next time around.

More importantly, he floods the market with so many news stories on a daily basis that this story has a hard time gaining traction when you're taking over Venezuela, potentially invading Greenland and have ice in Minnesota.

And more importantly, I think that the majority of Americans right now are thinking about the economy.

They're thinking about how they're going to afford their groceries at the store the next day.

And so, you know, I think Americans are exasperated by everything else that's going on.

And I'm not sure that this is the kind of story that people do think people care.

I think what was different with this story from the New York Times today is that we have heard trickles of information.

We've heard about the Melania documentary on Amazon.

We've heard about the real estate deals outside of the country.

But to see it all together and see that it amounts to almost $2 billion claimed when it was Hunter Biden on a board for Burisma or selling paintings, Right, which is like a pittance.

I mean, you're literally talking pennies in comparison to what this grift is.

They've turned the entire Trump family has turned the White House and the presidency, and

not just the Trump family, also some of his cabinet members, into the Home Shopping Network, and

they are figuring out how to exploit that presidency to line their pockets.

I think it is particularly galling and disgusting for him to be claiming that affordability is a hoax.

Well, of course it's a hoax for him because he's out there hawking everything he absolutely can while regular Americans don't have that luxury now, do they?

The New York Times editorial board writes, it's impossible to know how often Mr.

Trump makes official decisions in part or entirely because he wants to be richer.

I mean, I remember the president didn't like when the Obama's got a deal with Netflix after they left the White House.

Melanie Trump has a deal while she's in the White House with Amazon.

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