Annie Massa
Appearances
Apple News Today
Trump returned to the White House twice as rich. It’s raising concerns.
While there have absolutely been presidents with business interests before, the types of businesses, the regulatory flux that some of those businesses are under right now, and the scope, the actual dollar value of the assets in question are unmatched in any other historical context.
Apple News Today
Trump returned to the White House twice as rich. It’s raising concerns.
It's a huge part of his net worth, worth billions of dollars, and it's a publicly traded company. But the reason that we're paying such close attention to that company is because it does absolutely have a huge impact on the personal wealth, personal net worth of the president.
Apple News Today
Trump returned to the White House twice as rich. It’s raising concerns.
This is super important because crypto, even though it's been around for a while now, there are still many regulations related to it that are up in the air.
Apple News Today
Trump returned to the White House twice as rich. It’s raising concerns.
Mr. Patel has been sitting on the board of Trump's media company, and he is actually not the only Trump nominee who has been on that board.
Apple News Today
Trump returned to the White House twice as rich. It’s raising concerns.
That could pose a potential big problem because it would align almost his financial incentives with the president of the United States, hypothetically. And the reason that would be a problem is potentially that could alter the course of what this agency would be willing to investigate or not.
Apple News Today
Trump returned to the White House twice as rich. It’s raising concerns.
And their critique is that there are absolutely not enough guardrails in place. You know, a foreign actor or a special interest could easily enrich him much more directly than even last time.