Inside the revelations from Trump’s $2 billion financial disclosure

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  This is In Conversation from Apple News.

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  I'm David Green, in for Shumita Basu.

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  Today, inside the revelations from Trump's recent financial disclosure.

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  President Trump earned more than $2 billion in his first year back in office.

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  That's according to a mandatory financial disclosure released in June.

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  The disclosure has drawn attention to the ties between the president...

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  And his businesses.

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  The bulk of his earnings over $1.4 billion came from cryptocurrency ventures,

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  including a company co-founded with his sons called World Liberty Financial.

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  In 2025, a significant share of that company was bought by an investment firm tied to the United Arab Emirates.

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  Trump has pushed back on questions related to these earnings

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  and his supporters see them as a validation of his business expertise.

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  But others say that the disclosure is evidence of conflicts of interest

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  because some of the most lucrative deals intersect with the administration's cryptocurrency policies

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  and dealings with foreign governments.

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  The disclosure has highlighted just how different Trump is from past presidents when it comes to his business practices.

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  There's been no president doing it at this scale.

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  There's no one even close to this amount of money.

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  That's David Kirkpatrick, a staff writer for The New Yorker, who has been tracking Trump's streams of income for years.

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  I wanted to talk to David about what exactly this recent financial disclosure reveals

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