Kleptocracy

Trump's facile assertion on November 22 that "the president can't have a conflict of interest" drew immediate comparisons to Richard Nixon's 1977 response to David Frost's question about government-authorized wiretaps, burglaries, mail opening, etc. that "when the president does it it's not illegal." As the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler pointed out the next day, the "law doesn't say the president can't have a conflict of interest."