principles, no scruples and no concern for the emoluments clause, the president looks like a good gig when it comes to the post-presidential money-making schemes. frank, take me i m old enough to remember when you couldn t let a reporter buy you a soda because it would look like you were letting a reporter curry favor with the press office. how did we get from there in 2004 to here where the presidency sounds like it is literally for sale to the most thuggish dictator, in this case vladimir putin, or maybe there was a bidding war. maybe that s what the high-five was. we split him, mbs and vlad. take me through how the law either catches someone like this or do you slip through the cracks? did our laws not imagine someone as corrupt as the trump family? yeah, i think we were all operating on a general understanding, nicolle, over our american history that politicians would rise up to become president of the united states with a working