The Trump family’s love of money is opening up the White House to potential foreign interference by bad actors looking to curry favor with the president, The New Yorker’s David Kirkpatrick told MSNBC’s The Weekend Primetime on Sunday.

Kirkpatrick estimated that the family has raked in more than $3 billion dollars since the start of Donald Trump’s second term.

“The number I came up with was $3.4 billion,” Kirkpatrick said. “Some of that stretches back to before he reentered the White House. Some of that was payments this from Saudi Arabia investing in this fund with Jared Kushner, but almost all of it —the lion’s share of it —is just in the last six months since he reentered the White House.”

Kirkpatrick said he reviewed Trump’s various businesses and income streams and asked himself, “Is this money from the presidency? You know, would he have made this money if he was just a reality TV show host or a real estate guy?”

The numbers he came up, Kirkpatrick said, were conservative values.

“And I really tried to show my work so readers can go through and see for themselves if they think I’m undervaluing the amount of money that Jared Kushner made off the off the Saudis, they can make that decision for themselves. Or maybe they think I’m overvaluing it. But no matter how you slice it, it’s a lot of money.”

Kirkpatrick said that the speed at which Trump and his family have been bringing in billions is worrisome.

“They seem to turn down no opportunity,” he said. “And if I was a foreign government considering doing business with the Trump Organization as a way to try to curry favor with the president, perhaps to get some sort of official act in my benefit, I have to believe that I would see that eagerness for money and think, ‘Yeah, there’s an okay chance here that if I do business with the Trump Organization, they really want that money, it may work out for me.”

Watch the clip above via MSNBC.

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