Eric Lipton
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 5 Aug
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And so at the same time that Eric Trump is in Dubai talking about new hotel and crypto projects, Don Jr. is in Eastern Europe in the Balkans. And he actually has dinner with the president of Serbia. And the president of Serbia boasts on a Facebook posting that he's grilling a pig for Don Jr. for dinner.
And it's that president who has granted this concession to Jared Kushner and the Trump family to build a Trump International Hotel in Serbia on property that's owned by the government. Serbia also has a lot of interest with the United States. It wants to get into the European Union.
And it wants the United States to aggressively push Europe to allow it into the European Union because it has not yet been allowed and that would improve its economy. And the president in Serbia also has been facing intense protests in Serbia over issues relating to his management of the government there. And Donald Trump Jr.
's presence in Serbia is a sign that he is supported by, you know, the president of the United States and the family of the president. And so... The president of Serbia is giving an incredibly valuable concession to the Trump family, and the Trump family is effectively helping boost his standing in Serbia as he seeks to maintain control of the country.
Again, that alone would be a kind of a headline-grabbing conflict of interest that would demand newspaper coverage for weeks. But here we have all of these things simultaneously happening. It's actually quite difficult to keep up with them all and to try to explain them all to the public because each one is so complicated but also represents such a historic level conflict of interest.
I do. I think that it's hard to write about them all. It's hard to read about them. It takes a fair amount of energy simply to keep up. And they kind of all blur together. And they're happening simultaneously. Yeah. So I think, I mean, is it by design? I don't know.
What I think is happening is that they are unleashed and they sense a moment of opportunity to pursue businesses that will generate profit for themselves and their family, and they are aggressively doing that. And there's no restraint on that pursuit. And so that's what's playing out right now.
Nexo was targeted by the Securities and Exchange Commission during the Biden administration for violating federal securities laws. And it paid a large fine and it then withdrew from the American marketplace. So then in the last couple of weeks, Don Jr. was invited to be the headline speaker at a conference. an event that Nexto was sponsoring there in Bulgaria. And there on stage was Don Trump Jr.
with a huge portrait of him, you know, as he was speaking and talking about, you know, the Trump administration and U.S. issues and the crypto business. And then the co-founder of the company announces while Donald Trump Jr. is there that they're going to reenter the United States marketplace soon.
that they've already been having meetings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and that America has re-embraced crypto and that we're coming back to America and we're here with Don Jr. to celebrate our return to the United States. And Don Jr. is being paid to be present as they relaunch their crypto business in the United States and they push out press releases and photos of that event.
So there's the mixing of a financial interest and a regulatory matter. And there's so much happening simultaneously. How do we possibly keep up with it and explain this all to readers?
So the club was announced a couple weekends ago. Donald Jr. was actually in the Balkans in Eastern Europe at the time giving his paid speeches and visiting with the Serbian president where they're going to build a hotel. But while that was underway, back in Washington, he's the part owner of what's called the executive branch, which is going to be a new private club that's opening in Georgetown.
It's an expansive space there at a club that recently shut down. And in order to be a member of the club, there's a $500,000 membership fee. And news reporters will not be allowed in there. The public will not be allowed in there. But effectively, it's going to become a modern-day Mar-a-Lago like the Trump family have in California. You know, in Florida or like the Trump Hotel in D.C.
used to be before they sold that after Trump left his first term, where, you know, there will be a gathering of Trump family members, of their friends, including among the other partners are Don Jr. 's venture capital partners from a company called 1789. And another founding member is Jeff Miller, who's a lobbyist that got more than 35 new clients since the start of the Trump administration.
He represents an incredible array of regulated industries. And David Sachs, who is the White House AI and crypto advisor, is also a founding member. So already you've got a White House advisor, a lobbyist, the Trump family, and Don Jr. 's venture capital business partners that are helping either found it or own it. And this is going to be a place of confidential meetings.
And now when I spoke with the representatives for executive branch and I spoke with a lawyer and several other folks that are associated with it about this, they say that this is a social place for people to gather, that they will not be disrupted because the Trump people are often not welcome in a liberal city like D.C., And that all this is is about a safe place for people to gather and relax.
But it also is certainly going to be a place where there will be influential people who have unusual access to Trump affiliates. And I have to imagine it's going to be a lot like the Trump Hotel or Mar-a-Lago is right now. And Don Jr. owns a chunk of that. Now, Donald Trump, the president, does not actually, as far as I know, own a stake in in the executive branch, but his son does.
And it's going to be fascinating to watch this play, so that we're going to have to watch from the outside because we aren't going to be let in.
Yeah. I mean, there are a lot of venture capitalists, Silicon Valley types, that put large amounts of money into President Trump's reelection campaign. And many of them associated with the crypto industry that are so anxious to see him adopt this cryptocurrency regulatory environment that embraces crypto. They're going to be a lot of members from that environment.
And David Sachs is sort of the leader of that whole crew. He himself came from the crypto industry. He was an investor. So, I mean, I suspect it will be a pretty crypto heavy hangout place. And those folks are quite wealthy. And, you know, Jeff Miller, one of the lobbyists, represents a company called Tether. He was recently hired by Tether.
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