President Donald Trump is once again facing questions about foreign money flowing into his family’s cryptocurrency business, and his response to potential violations of the emoluments clause checked all the usual boxes — selective amnesia, self-contradiction, and a familiar insistence that critics simply don’t understand what he’s doing. Pressed on whether overseas investors were enriching his family while he occupies the Oval Office, Trump brushed off concerns as “ridiculous,” alternately claiming he has no involvement in the business while defending it as a necessary innovation the U.S. can’t afford to abandon. At several points, his answers appeared to conflict with…



