‘Using the presidency to line his pockets’: could claims of corruption fuel backlash against Trump?

Experts say president is vulnerable amid discontent over rising prices – and the US public has ample cause for complaint

In Donald Trump’s telling, he’s a model of incorruptible self-sacrifice.

“I’m the only president that donated his salary,” he told a group of cheering supporters at a Hispanic heritage month celebration in the White House last week, before conceding that George Washington – “a very wealthy person” – might have beaten him to the punch.