WASHINGTON — Want to know who, exactly, is putting millions of dollars, even tens of millions, directly into Donald Trump’s pocket through his “meme” crypto coins, and what they want in return?

Or whether his trip to the United Arab Emirates this week will include a visit with the state-backed firm that plans on using $2 billion of his “stable” coin?

Well, too bad. According to the White House, none of that is any of your business.

It truly is astounding, watching in real time as the president of the United States openly uses his office to enrich himself — the very definition of corruption — the way a third-world dictator might and, at least thus far, get away with it.

“It’s like the government is for sale,” said Norm Eisen, the top ethics lawyer in the Obama White House. “Trump is acting like some kind of a corrupt pirate or a medieval potentate.”

One reason why Trump’s blatant profiteering may be failing to gain traction is a widespread notion — one pushed by a lot of progressives — that Trump is doing nothing more than politicians have done for ages, that they’re all corrupt, that the whole system is corrupt, and so on.

They could not be more wrong. Full-on, cash-into-public-officials’-wallets corruption is actually rare in this country. What many people think of as political “corruption” is our system of financing campaigns, how those with money get access to candidates and elected officials. There is absolutely merit to this,........

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