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Donald Trump has long boasted that the presidency cost him billions, and Vladimir Putin portrays himself as a humble patriot on a modest salary.
In 2019, Trump claimed he lost up to $5 billion by serving as U.S. president reuters.com~. In reality, his own disclosures show more than $1.6 billion in outside revenue flowed into his businesses during his term citizensforethics.org. Putin, for his part, officially declares an annual income of around $120,000 usatoday.com. Yet investigations reveal that billions of dollars have quietly passed through accounts of Putinβs associates, in patterns too elaborate to trace directly to
him usatoday.com. Far from selfless public servants, both men allegedly leveraged public power into vast hidden fortunes. This report examines their financial trails from the beginning β and the exponential growth of those secret wealth networks through shell companies, proxies and now digital assets. Follow the money, and a damning pattern emerges.
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