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President Donald Trump has profited off his second term to an unprecedented degree , making hundreds of millions of dollars through a variety of financial schemes , kickbacks , and shady business deals with his allies and acolytes. But he currently stands poised to cut out the middlemen and collect $230 million directly from his own government. Before returning to the White House, Trump filed claims insisting that he deserved this taxpayer-funded windfall because he’d been persecuted by various federal investigations, including the Russia probe, the Mar-a-Lago search, and the classified-documents prosecution. On Tuesday, he indicated that the government

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