THIS cannot happen too soon...

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Finally someone is saying it

Donald Trump is a bad businessman.

There’s no arguing that he’s not—if he’d taken the money his father gave him and dumped it all in totally average mutual funds, he’d be better off today than he is after a lifetime of half-baked dealings that’ve bankrupted himself and others and shorted taxpayers.

In order to survive his terrible deals, reporters who’ve looked at Trump’s dealings after the 2016 election have found that he’s relied on graft and shady partnerships. In a new podcast with Slate, The New Yorker‘s Adam Davidson breaks down what he’s learned from spending the last year looking at Trump’ business dealings around the world. Davidson says other reporters who’ve done the same have found it “increasingly shocking just how flagrant the Trump Organization was” in dealing with the “shadiest—frankly, in cases, purely evil—people” whose business schemes involved making money “in wildly illegal and corrupt ways.”