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President Trump is now not only a major crypto dealer; he is also the industry’s top policy maker. Trump-family-owned World Liberty has erased centuries-old presidential norms, eviscerating the boundary between private enterprise and government policy nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/…

NEW: In February, Eric Trump urged people to invest in Ether ($ETH), writing “you can thank me later.” The next month, his father announced the creation of a “US Crypto Reserve” including $ETH. Its price surged 13%+. The Trump firm World Liberty Financial owned $240m in $SETH

There are so many jarring conflicts exposed by Eric Lipton, David Yaffe-Bellany & Ben Protess in this investigation of the Trump family's forays into cryptocurrency. The whole thing is worth a read to understand all the potential avenues for self-enrichment. nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/…

"World Liberty proposed swapping cryptocurrencies with at least five start-ups, and often used the Trump name to solicit steep payments as part of the deals. Even in an industry with a disreputable history, the deals raised alarm among veteran executives" nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/…

🤬🤮Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm. World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary btwn private enterprise and government policy in ways without precedent in modern American history. nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/…

“Few places exemplify the Trump family’s fluid melding of business with politics as clearly as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the Emirates, the three countries in the Gulf that Mr. Trump will visit,” write ⁦Vivian Nereim⁩ & ⁦Eric Lipton⁩ nytimes.com/2025/04/30/wor…

For years, Trump derided crypto as a haven for drug dealers and scammers. Then he joined the drug dealers and scammers with his own crypto firm represented by a guy who once ran a company called Date Hotter Girls. Eric Lipton David Yaffe-Bellany ben protess nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/…

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On an all-new The Weekly Show, Jon Stewart is joined by Eric Lipton and Susan Glasser to delve into how Trump is leveraging the presidency for personal profit. #TheWeeklyShow Eric Lipton Susan Glasser

The US has officially accepted the free jet plane from Qatar and the Air Force has been asked to figure out a way to rapidly upgrade it so it can be put into use as a new Air Force One for Trump. Eric Lipton Eric Schmitt nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/…

Trump's plan to accept a luxury 747 from Qatar has drawn concern from lawmakers who worry that he will pressure the Air Force to do more than $1 billion in work so fast that sufficient security measures are not built into the plane w/Eric Lipton nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/…

President Trump is threatening to cut govt. contracts for Elon Musk's companies amid their feud. SpaceX and Starlink have received billions from the federal govt. Eric Lipton joins Katy Tur to explain why it's "not possible" for Trump to do this. msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch…

NEW: Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/…

NEW: A top buyer of Trump's memecoin has ties to the Chinese Communist Party. He Tianying owned $3.7M of $TRUMP. That got him into a crypto dinner with Trump & a WH tour. Yet the WH is working to revoke visas from Chinese students with Communist ties. nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/…

"Trump was welcoming these folks to his dinner at the same time as he's moving to try to limit visas for Chinese students": Eric Lipton on his new reporting claiming one buyer at the President's high-dollar memecoin dinner last month has ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

Trump's Dictator Cosplay... my new column on the President's week of militarized theater: newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…