[comrade1234]

It's usually been 'get elected to the house and make a million on the side, elected to the senate and tens of millions on the side, elected president make a billion'

By 'on the side', I mean things like book deals and at the time legal insider trading. As for making a billion after being elected president in the past it was foundations you've set up and receive donations to, not directly like trump. I think the Clintons were probably the most extreme even taking it I remember a billion dollar donation from Saudi Arabia. But nothing comes even close to trump.

[jfengel]

Saudi Arabia's donation to the Clinton Foundation is $10 million, not $1 billion. A fair chunk of change, to be sure, but two orders of magnitude different.

It was treated as a massive scandal when they received $32 million donation from the Crown Prince of Bahrain, which resulted in a meeting with Hillary Clinton.