How Trump profits from the presidency

an exhaustive new investigation published by The New Yorker magazine.

I went through and looked at all the sources of income, the income streams flowing into the Trump Organization, the president and his family, and I asked, is this money that he would have made absent the presidency? Because he's got hotels, he's got golf courses. Sometimes people go there just to play golf around a hotel room. We're not talking about that.

So I only wanted to look at money that he has made because he is or has been in the White House. And then I tried to ask, as best I could, what is each one of those things worth? And that's how I came up with $3.4 billion. There's nothing like this before. A lot of presidents make money after they leave, selling books, various other endeavors. But he and his family are making this money while he's in the White House.

They seem to turn down no opportunity. And that's what makes the questions about a conflict of interest all the more pressing, because I feel like when they are so evidently zealous, so eager to make money, it really sharpens the question of what a buyer, so to speak, might sharpens the question of what a buyer, so to speak, might be getting for that.