"But Kristofer Harrison, a senior foreign policy official under President George W Bush who now runs an anti-corruption organisation called the Dekleptocracy Project, is among those accusing the Trumps of operating a "pay to play" system that benefits those who do business with the president's family.

Such an approach could be manipulated, he said, especially by rival powers such as China. He said: "Trump has made authoritarians' wildest dreams come true."

"Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and sometime diplomatic envoy, said recently:

"What people call conflicts of interests ... I call experience and trusted relationships that we have throughout the world."

The Saudis have given his fund billions."

from the article

I've been enjoying Ken Burns new, "The American Revolution"... which may well be seen as what happens when Empires decide to divvy up the world.

Some people are going to balk at the whole idea.