Opinion | Trump is far from the first corrupt US politician

President Trump's journey to the Persian Gulf, which was just ending, could undoubtedly be described as a two -way. On the first day he visited Saudi Arabia, where the Trump organization – now in the hands of two of his sons – is involved in a number of business agreements.

In the fog of public outrage (and especially about things like Mr. Trump's plans to accept the gift of a Qatarjet), we forgot that two things can be true at the same time: that the kind of pay-to-play plans between the Trump government and foreign guests are far more broken than anything else in American history, and that Mr. Trump in a vacuum cleaner is not in a vacuum cleaner was created.

Each of the new foreign deals, the memo cinema and secret crypto donation campaigns, the open attempts, investments of kleptocratic regimes and oligarchs abroad to invest as to the world and in-law traveling around the world and new foreign clients are immersed-according to their own scandal.

Mr. Trump might have replaced things like tea dome as a short form for corruption by the President, but he and his family only surf a wave of previous administrations and civil servants who have fulfilled years in the other way in the other way, such as foreign regimes and foreign oligarchs, the American politics and politicians directly bank roles.

Let us take how the wider Trump family has chewed around the globe and exposed all possible inventive paths to benefit from the return of his patriarch. There is the new Executive Branch Club that brings direct access to the administration for just half a million dollars. There is a new Cryptocurrency business of the Trump family that has just completed a multibillion dollar deal with a fund supported by Abu Dhabi. In addition to Mr. Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, in addition to Mr. Trump's son-in-law, in addition to multimillion dollar investments with Mr. Kushner's company from numerous autocrats. Again and again the Trump family has changed as if there was no concern to sign potential business with kleptocratic customers, but also no price that needs to be paid for such a trade.

Are you wrong? Just a few months ago, President Joe Biden spent his son Hunter Biden a blanket forgiveness in one of his last acts – while his father was vice president, also exchanging the world for years with his last name. Even after Hunter Biden had apparently used American officials to help at least one foreign client -a clear violation of the US lobby laws -he did not pay a legal price and mocked his father's commitment obligation to practice practice. Why should the Trump children behave differently?