COMMANDER-IN-THIEF: The Trump family’s crypto empire is expanding rapidly, and it’s making earlier ethics debates over his hotel and casino business interests look downright quaint.
But in the opaque world of cryptocurrencies, where transactions are often anonymous and unbound by national borders, there is virtually no cap on the amount of money a person or government could funnel to the president, his family and the growing list of entities they control.
And soon, anyone with a brokerage account will be able to buy shares on the open market of American Bitcoin, a crypto mining firm backed by the president’s sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.
But crypto offers a level of anonymity and scale that the White House has never seen.
IT’S FRANKLY RIDICULOUS: “It’s frankly ridiculous that anyone in this room would even suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit,” Karoline Leavitt said. “This White House holds ourselves to the highest of ethical standards.”
The scale of the potential corruption is boundless. But someone can just make a $20 million crypto purchase, and that’s a scale we’ve never seen before.
“He is essentially selling access to the presidency of the United States,” said Jordan Libowitz, vice president for communications at the nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW. – Analysis by Allison Morrow.
THE EYE OF A NEEDLE – We appreciate those camels. I haven’t seen camels like that in a long time. And it was some greeting, we appreciate it very much.’ – DT. Qatar didn’t hold anything back as they welcomed the Trump regime to their shores. He seems to have been mightily impressed by the camels, even more so than with the red cybertruck or military jet escort.
The New Testament quotes Jesus as saying in Luke 18:25 that “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God” (Jesus and the rich young man); This is repeated in the same words in Matthew 19:24 and Mark 10:25. – Wiki –
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