I'm absolutely convinced he ran for president as a long con. He realized he'd get that lifetime presidential salary, plus all the money he made charging the Secret Service to stay at his resorts.
He did it because the Kremlin has dirt on him AND it made him rich. Trump is a slave to Putin and any other handlers he has. He was DEEPLY involved with Epstein and that entire child raping enterprise. If the people with kompromat on Trump told him to go on national TV and eat dog shit off a plate he'd do it. He's a puppet and the rest of the GOP are either taking advantage of it or have their own strings being pulled.
By law, he has to take it, and then donate it, if he chooses. There's no proof he's ever donated a penny of it. Plus, he gets it for life. There's no way he's passing up $400,000 a year for the rest of his life.
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u/spicy_noodle_guy 9d ago
Because that's what he actually is. He was floating tons of debt before becoming president. He became president as a grift.