$750. As a blockbuster investigation from the New York Times revealed on Sunday, that’s how much President Trump paid in federal income taxes in 2016 and then again in 2017 during his first year in the White House. The report, which relied on more than two decades of tax-return records, yielded a number of explosive findings, including the staggering losses endured by Trump’s businesses and clear evidence that those businesses are directly profiting from his presidency. But amid the avalanche of takeaways, somehow the $750 figure has gained special power as a convenient shorthand for exactly how corrupt this president is.