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Donald Trump at a midterm campaign rally in Daytona Beach, Florida, last month. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
Donald Trump at a midterm campaign rally in Daytona Beach, Florida, last month. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
Analysis‘Shameless venality’: how a flurry of lawsuits has thwarted Trump’s self-enrichment schemesPeter Stonein Washington

Courts have issued stinging rebukes to president’s ‘blatant’ financial ploys as pro-democracy groups defend ‘government of laws, not of men’ pillar