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Former U.S. President Donald Trump has long been criticized for what some have called corrupt foreign practices involving money coming from foreign nations, but those issues are only growing deeper, according to a new report.

Before, during, and after his presidency, Trump benefited from foreign deals that largely flew under most citizens’ radar.

But those deals are ramping up, “likely in preparation for a second term,” according to a report from the Intelligencer.

Given the financial overlap between Trump, his family, his company, and a constellation of kleptocratic regimes, especially Russia, Trump presented an unprecedented opportunity for foreign regimes to directly access the White House and tilt American policy in the process,” according to the report. “Now, with Trump running for the presidency once more, those concerns have hardly disappeared. If anything, foreign governments — including brand-new regimes that weren’t involved in Trump’s first whirlwind in the White House — have only spied new opportunities to burrow into his pockets and into a second administration.”

The report outlines various deals [of Donald Trump] from various foreign nations, including Egypt, China, Kazakhstan, and Indonesia, but especially focuses on Trump’s multi-prong relationship to the Saudi Arabian government.