The Family Business - a podcast by WNYC Studios

The Trump, Inc. podcast from WNYC and ProPublica is back. And we'll be bringing you new episodes every two weeks. 

When we started all the way back in early 2018, we laid out how we'd be digging into themysteries around President Donald Trump's business. After all, by keeping ownership of that business, Trump has had dueling interests: the country and his pocketbook. 

We've done dozens of episodes over the past 18 months, detailing how predatory lenders arepaying the president, how Trump has profited fromhis own inaugurationand how Trump's friends have sought to use theiraccessinpursuit ofprofit. 

We've noticed something along the way. It's not just that the president has mixed his business and governing. It's that thewayTrump does business is spreading across the government. 

Trump's company isn't like most big businesses. It is accountable to only one man, it hasbroken the rules, and those promoting it have long engaged in what Trump has dubbed, ahem, "truthfulhyperbole."

Those traits are now popping up in the government. It may seem like the news from Washington is a cacophony of scandals. But they fit clear patterns — patterns that Trump has brought with him from his business.  

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