The Trump Organization

Every morning, a swarm of black SUVs deliver a 6’ 7” freshman to classes at NYU's Stern School of Business. The journey from Trump Tower takes about 20 minutes, which is enough time for 19-year-old Barron Trump to check his cryptocurrency wallets before settling into the back row of a lecture hall, flanked by Secret Service agents in hoodies and jeans, attempting (and failing) to blend in with students. The scene captures a peculiar tension in the youngest Trump's coming of age: between assimilating and standing out. While his classmates stress over student loans, unpaid internships and how to make their weekly grocery budget go further, Barron has assembled a digital fortune independently of his parents.

While Donald Trump’s excessive rhetoric often evokes eye rolls, in the case of Friday’s record-setting $350 million judgment against the Trump Organization, he is spot on. “Disgraceful.” “Lawfare.” “Banana republic.” All three apply.  It’s hard to imagine a more perverse and vindictive misuse of the justice system than that which New York attorney general Letitia James has committed. While campaigning in 2018, James promised to vigorously investigate Trump and his business. True to her word, once in the office James spent three years seizing and scouring through Trump’s tax and financial records for anything she could use as the basis for legal action.