Donald Trump: The President who cares little for convention

President Donald Trump began his career with what he says was a "small" loan of US$1 million from his father. PHOTO: AFP
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WASHINGTON - To his critics, he is amoral, unscrupulous, a conman from Queens, a bully, now an imperious President, surrounded with ideologues and sycophants, channelling a narrow, nativist, even racist vision of America.

And, with the Republican Party mostly in the palm of his hand, veering towards becoming a potentially dangerous dictator.

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