Molly White, crypto currency critic and author of citationneeded.news, joins Billy Corben to talk about what could be the biggest bribery scandals in the history of the American presidency. Miami Dade Elections Supervisor Alina Garcia hired Jenny Nillo to be executive secretary. We've talked extensively about Nillo and her antics. Elaine de Valle, who writes under the pseudonym of "Ladra" at Political Cortadito, comes on the show to unweave the web that is this hire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the potential bribery scandals involving the Trump family and crypto?
A fund from the UAE is buying 2 billion dollars worth of a digital coin created by the Trump-owned platform World Liberty Financial. The president is listed as its chief crypto advocate along with his sons. The company called it, quote, the single largest ever investment in a crypto company, but did not respond to questions about how much the Trump family would profit from it.
Das ist korrupt auf dem Gesicht, aber es ist wahrscheinlich illegal. Du musst wahrscheinlich nicht sehr tief schrecken, um einen Fall zu finden, wo der Präsident eine enorme Infusion von Geld zu seiner Krypto-Coin von einem CEO oder einem Außenoligarchen erholt hat, der dann von Donald Trump eine Verfügung stellt. Ein Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten,
Es sind fast vier Jahre her, seit der Eröffnung von MiamiCoin.
Chapter 2: Is MiamiCoin a legitimate investment or a scam?
You may remember that we were the first people to tell you that Miami Mayor Francis Suarez was pumping and probably dumping This shitcoin that had no useful application. It was barely even an unregistered security. It was just an absolute meme coin trash. And it seemed abundantly clear from the jump.
The thing about crypto, and as it turns out, a constitutional republic, is that it's like Tinkerbell. We all just have to believe in it. And as long as we keep believing in it, it will continue to exist. Here's the thing. We didn't know what the hell this Miami coin thing was for. Was it some sort of money laundering scheme? Was it a pump and dump?
Was it some way to funnel money to the mayor or city commissioners? Because the city itself was getting a vig off the trades. And in fact, the city did profit. So not a penny? Not a penny. Thank God the current president in his infinite wisdom stopped making the penny. I don't think we still make a .0000621% of a penny. It's...
My point is, as it always is, the Miami of today is the America of tomorrow. And what we now have was abundantly clear scheme and a scam down here in Miami is now in the White House. You heard Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy talking about this being one of the biggest problems. Kind of instrument as well.
Then we just saw this story about a two million dollar investment from a foreign nation, from Abu Dhabi into the president and his son's private business. We saw a raffle. Ich glaube, dieses seltsame, semi-legale Raffel, um ein Abendessen oder so etwas im White House mit dem Präsidenten zu gewinnen. Wie beginnt man, das zu erklären, was hier los ist?
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Chapter 3: How is Trump leveraging cryptocurrency for personal gain?
Trump nutzt die Kryptowährung wirklich, um sich zu entwickeln. Er hat keine Grenzen gefunden, wie er für sich selbst Geld auslösen kann, nicht nur für seine Kampagne. Er nutzt den Meme-Coin, er nutzt eine Venture, die World Liberty Financial heißt, von der er viel Geld verdient. Seine Trump-Media-Familie, die Truth Social betreibt, geht auch in Kryptowährungen. Er hat NFTs.
Ich meine, die Liste geht jetzt wirklich weiter. Und er hat sich als Präsident sehr direkt für Kryptowährungen eingeladen. Wir haben das durch diesen neuen Abend gesehen, den er beantragt hat, wo die Top-Händler der Trump-Meme-Coin zu einem privaten Abend mit dem Präsidenten eingeladen werden. I just did some analysis on those holders.
The majority of them are not based in the United States, which adds additional concerns over emoluments and foreign agents registration. And so this is sort of a new avenue for corruption that Trump is taking full advantage of.
Und du hast diese Firmen. Es gibt eine Logistikfirma, die 20 Millionen Dollar zahlen wird. Sie haben das nicht, aber ich denke, sie werden 20 Millionen Dollar zahlen, damit sie in diesen Token investieren können. Und explizit für den Zweck von Lobbying oder der Überwachung des Präsidenten, die US-Mexiko-Tradepolicy zu verändern. Ist das richtig? Ja.
Das ist richtig, ja. Und wir haben das gleiche von Kryptowährungsunternehmen und anderen Kryptowährungsentitäten gesehen. Zum Beispiel hat Justin Sun einen Kryptowährungsbillionär gekauft, der 75 Millionen Dollar von Trumps World Liberty Financial Token gekauft hat.
Und dann, kurz nach der Enauguration, wurde der Fall, der Verurteilung gegen ihn und seine Firma von der Sicherheits- und Exchange Commission, gedroppt. Oder eher gedroppt, nach der entsprechenden Resolution, möglicherweise gedroppt.
I've talked extensively about public corruption in this program and the way politicians in South Florida exploit their public office for private profit. I don't think we've seen anything on this scale before, where you're talking about figures in multi-billion dollars.
You're talking about it all happening rather transparently in an effort to effectuate policy and to buy access to the President of the United States. But you're also seeing the President changing policy, changing the country's policy on crypto specifically in a way that directly enriches himself and his family. Tell us about that.
Right. So Trump has been very active in influencing both legislation that's being proposed as well as the regulations that are currently being enforced or previously were being enforced. You know, his directions to various entities within the government have directly been cited by the SEC, for example, when they've dropped
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Chapter 4: What is the impact of deregulation on the cryptocurrency market?
Es gibt einige Fälle gegen Kryptowährungsunternehmen, viele von denen mit Verrücktheit, sodass sie nicht wiedergefiltert werden können. Weitere Fälle, die in die Gerichtssitzung gehen, sind eingestellt worden. Er hat diese Stablecoin entdeckt oder diese Stablecoin via seinem World Liberty Financial Project, sobald Stablecoin-Legislation durch den Kongress durchgeführt wird, von der er aussteht.
And so he's very much conflicted in terms of his engagements with the cryptocurrency world because he is writing the rules and creating a favorable business environment while also enriching himself via crypto ventures.
This is a deregulation of an industry that was barely being regulated to begin with. And in fact. bei all objective accounts is worthy of scrutiny. I hear from crypto true believers all the time that there's really only two legit coins. There's Bitcoin and there's Ethereum and that everything else is nonsense.
And when you're in a sector where even the devout believers are telling you that, oh, 99% of this other stuff is a scam. I'm like, okay, wait. Hang on, if your argument is 99%, but doesn't that require a level of scrutiny and regulation that is now being rolled back?
You would certainly think so. And it's pretty incredible to watch the cryptocurrency industry and its lobbyists make this case that during the Biden administration, the regulators were being too harsh to crypto and that they were killing the industry by trying to enforce very standard regulations that are used elsewhere in the financial system.
During that time period we saw the collapse of FTX, we saw the collapse of Celsius, whose CEO is literally being sentenced as we speak for his fraud in that company. We saw the failures of regulations to be applied to this industry.
And yet somehow the industry is claiming that these very limited regulations that are in place were too over the top and that they were killing the industry and that they need to be rolled back. And that's exactly what's been happening. They are getting every wish under the Trump administration.
One of the things about crypto that's been uniquely disturbing to me is all of the... Die Argumente, die Leute mir darüber gemacht haben, sind im Allgemeinen nicht wahr. Es ist ein Hedge gegen die Inflation. It's not. It somehow has a practical application beyond just the casino of the unregulated security, that there's somehow you can use it to pay bills and things or whatever.
That's very rare in the crypto space outside of the, I guess, the major two, if you will. The idea that it's somehow... Vielen Dank. The democratization of banking somehow. The idea that, again, for people who believe that a man who shits on a gold toilet is really looking out for the plumber who services that toilet or the common man, the working class of America.
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Chapter 5: Who is Alina Garcia and what controversies surround her appointment?
Yeah, I mean, that's been a serious problem with crypto gaming in the past, is that it really invites, you know, very vulnerable people, including children, to get involved in the type of, you know, gamified gambling, essentially. It's, you know, they are using real money and often losing real money in these crypto games.
These kids have got to do something while they're vaping. I mean, they're not just going to sit around, you know, smoking and not do something else to distract themselves. Last question, Molly, is this legal? Or should it be legal?
Well, it is illegal for the president to accept money for influence.
She's a hater.
Yes, true. I mean, it is plainly illegal. I think the question is whether anything will happen about it, because we've seen the regulators backing off. I mean, Trump himself has helped dismantle the cryptocurrency investigations team at the Department of Justice. He's directed
the major frauds unit at the Department of Justice to stop focusing on cryptocurrency and instead focus on things like immigration fraud and very procurement fraud, things like that. And then, of course, we've seen, you know, some muted opposition in Congress that, you know, people speaking up against his very blatant griffs, but it has yet to amount to much. This is the golden age of crypto.
Ich gebe ihm das letzte Wort.
Sie kaufen nur Bitcoin, alles andere ist ein Verbrechen. Sie kaufen nur Bitcoin, alles andere ist ein Verbrechen? Richtig, ja. Nur Bitcoin. Donald Trump hat seine Meme-Coin geöffnet. War das ein Verbrechen? Ich liebe Trump, aber ja. Ja, es war ein Verbrechen.
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Chapter 6: How does Miami's political history influence current events?
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This is as Miami a story as you can possibly get. And it is so Miami that we require a Miami Whisperer, a Miami Translator, a Rosetta Stone, someone to crack the Da Vinci Code of this story. Because it is so... It's par for the course in Miami, but I'm concerned that people... outside of Miami are going to have absolutely no idea where to begin with this. So let's start with the headline.
Miami-Dade elections supervisor hires no-show Miami employee Jenny Nilo. Now, where to begin? Because obviously, who is the Miami-Dade election supervisor? Who is Jenny Nilo? How did we get here? So, the first thing I'll say is that the election supervisor used to be a politically appointed position. The county mayor would appoint that person.
It was a woman for a long time by the name of Christina White, who was a professional. She's worked for Republican mayors, for Democratic mayors, and has done, I think, by and large, a pretty good job in a very difficult Das ist jetzt eine partizipale politische Position, die... No, bueno, muy malo. It shouldn't be, I don't care who wins or who's running.
It should not be a partisan political position. You should have to be a professional. You should have to know what you're doing. And in fact, the person who won, Alina Garcia.
knows so little about the job that she hired christina white to stay on because she has no idea what she's doing and she has turned it into really nothing more than a partisan political position and where does she come from elena garcia who are her Political Sherpas and Godfathers. You're not going to believe this cast of characters and how Jenny Nilo gets involved.
And so my translator for all this, when you need to know what's going on and why it's happening and what the sordid telenovela-esque history is with these multi-generational political crime families here in Miami, you go to politicalcortadito.com. You talk to Alain Devayet, aka Ladra, and Alain has been a journalist in this market for decades.
18 of those years, she was at the Miami Herald, a part of two Pulitzer Prize winning teams, including the team that exposed... The most corrupt local election in the history of this country. Well, this country, if you include Miami in this country. The 1997 Miami mayoral election of Xavier Suarez, the father of Francis Suarez versus you know who. I mean, it's like NFL coaches. It's 1997, dude.
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