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Amanda

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We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

see what they're invested in, nor see people that are benefiting their own personal business. So there isn't the appearance of impropriety. Trump has not done this. Opposite. At all. He's done quite the opposite. So the crypto thing you brought up, this is crypto that he called, quote, a haven for drug dealers and scammers.

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Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

see what they're invested in, nor see people that are benefiting their own personal business. So there isn't the appearance of impropriety. Trump has not done this. Opposite. At all. He's done quite the opposite. So the crypto thing you brought up, this is crypto that he called, quote, a haven for drug dealers and scammers.

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Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

This was his prior approach to crypto, which he went from a critic to a cheerleader when he realized that this haven for scammers could actually enrich him personally. He introduces these coins on the weekend of his inauguration. tells people to buy them, these meme coins, they go up $100 million. Then people start losing money, which in any other world, there's an SEC investigation of this.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

This was his prior approach to crypto, which he went from a critic to a cheerleader when he realized that this haven for scammers could actually enrich him personally. He introduces these coins on the weekend of his inauguration. tells people to buy them, these meme coins, they go up $100 million. Then people start losing money, which in any other world, there's an SEC investigation of this.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

This was his prior approach to crypto, which he went from a critic to a cheerleader when he realized that this haven for scammers could actually enrich him personally. He introduces these coins on the weekend of his inauguration. tells people to buy them, these meme coins, they go up $100 million. Then people start losing money, which in any other world, there's an SEC investigation of this.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

And then when Trump takes office, coincidentally, his SEC announces that for the first time, the SEC will not be investigating meme coins. That's interesting. And then he's raising all this money for his actual, he has, what is it called? It's Liberty, World Liberty Financial, which is a crypto bank.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

And then when Trump takes office, coincidentally, his SEC announces that for the first time, the SEC will not be investigating meme coins. That's interesting. And then he's raising all this money for his actual, he has, what is it called? It's Liberty, World Liberty Financial, which is a crypto bank.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

And then when Trump takes office, coincidentally, his SEC announces that for the first time, the SEC will not be investigating meme coins. That's interesting. And then he's raising all this money for his actual, he has, what is it called? It's Liberty, World Liberty Financial, which is a crypto bank.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

I bring that up because with this whole foreign investment situation that you're talking about in the Trump Incorporated, crypto is notorious for the difficulty in tracking payments. But the investigations that are underway are showing that more than half of the investments in World Liberty Financial are outside of the United States.

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Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

I bring that up because with this whole foreign investment situation that you're talking about in the Trump Incorporated, crypto is notorious for the difficulty in tracking payments. But the investigations that are underway are showing that more than half of the investments in World Liberty Financial are outside of the United States.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

I bring that up because with this whole foreign investment situation that you're talking about in the Trump Incorporated, crypto is notorious for the difficulty in tracking payments. But the investigations that are underway are showing that more than half of the investments in World Liberty Financial are outside of the United States.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

So it feels like we went from doing things to avoid the appearance of personal enrichment to just overt personal enrichment. I mean, isn't he hosting something that the top 200 investors in his World Liberty Financial are getting a dinner with him and then the top of the top are getting tour of the White House? So it's like direct personal access for personal enrichment to the president.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

So it feels like we went from doing things to avoid the appearance of personal enrichment to just overt personal enrichment. I mean, isn't he hosting something that the top 200 investors in his World Liberty Financial are getting a dinner with him and then the top of the top are getting tour of the White House? So it's like direct personal access for personal enrichment to the president.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

So it feels like we went from doing things to avoid the appearance of personal enrichment to just overt personal enrichment. I mean, isn't he hosting something that the top 200 investors in his World Liberty Financial are getting a dinner with him and then the top of the top are getting tour of the White House? So it's like direct personal access for personal enrichment to the president.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

Same with Justin's son. Remember the guy who bought the banana for six? Oh, okay. That's the same dude. Okay. So yes, there's 2023 SEC investigation. He buys $75 million of tokens from Trump. And then Trump gets elected and pauses the SEC investigation. Yes, it's wild.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

Same with Justin's son. Remember the guy who bought the banana for six? Oh, okay. That's the same dude. Okay. So yes, there's 2023 SEC investigation. He buys $75 million of tokens from Trump. And then Trump gets elected and pauses the SEC investigation. Yes, it's wild.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

Same with Justin's son. Remember the guy who bought the banana for six? Oh, okay. That's the same dude. Okay. So yes, there's 2023 SEC investigation. He buys $75 million of tokens from Trump. And then Trump gets elected and pauses the SEC investigation. Yes, it's wild.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

And I know we have to move on to other things, but the royal funds from all three states that he is visiting have committed more than $3.5 billion with a B in the private equity fund run by his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. It's just...

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

And I know we have to move on to other things, but the royal funds from all three states that he is visiting have committed more than $3.5 billion with a B in the private equity fund run by his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. It's just...

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

And I know we have to move on to other things, but the royal funds from all three states that he is visiting have committed more than $3.5 billion with a B in the private equity fund run by his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. It's just...