https://time.com/5894199/trump-debt-national-security-threat/
One of the fastest ways to be denied a
security clearance, current and former intelligence officials will tell
you, is to carry a load of debt. And then there’s President Donald
Trump.
New revelations in a New York Times report
show Trump allegedly has $421 million of debt coming due over the next
four years. An audit fight with the IRS could cost him another $100
million. At the same time, he reportedly paid taxes to foreign nations
far larger than the $750 he paid in the United States the year he won
the presidency and his first year in office.
For a sitting president, with the power to impose
fear or favor across the country and around the world, not to mention
access to the nation’s most closely held secrets, such financial
exposure is more than embarrassing, former intelligence officials and
ethics lawyers say: it makes Trump a national security threat.