This is how Donald Trump leveraged his business empire and political career to make millions of dollars

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Donald Trump's presidential campaign has lined the candidate's personal pockets to the tune of $2.3m since he took office, using the money the campaign has raised from major GOP donors and hundreds of thousands of individual Trump supporters to pay off the campaign's lodging, food and rent bills at the president's hotels, resorts and business spaces. The president's campaign committee, Donald J Trump for President, for instance, is spending $37,542 per month each month to operate out of Trump Tower in New York, Federal Election Commission records show. "If he's not spending millions of taxpayer dollars and campaign donations at his own properties in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the US Constitution, he's interfering with the relocation of the FBI Headquarters to protect his DC hotel," Mr Connolly said, referring to the president's insistence since taking office that the FBI renovate its headquarters on its existing site across the street from the president's flagship hotel in Washington, instead of moving the bureau's operations to Maryland or Virginia. As Mr Connolly and other Democratic lawmakers have pointed out, it's not just campaign donations from Republicans that have been funnelled into the president's personal coffers: House Democrats are probing reports, first brought to public attention by the Post in February, that Mr Trump's properties charged the US government exorbitant fees — as much as $650 per night — to lodge US Secret Service agents whenever the president stays at one of his hotels.