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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,650 posts)
Mon May 25, 2026, 12:41 PM 8 hrs ago

Trump Family Faces Damning New Grift Revelations

A key government agency is dismantling efforts to regulate online betting markets and crypto as President Donald Trump and his family deepen their ties to the booming industries.

The Trump family’s growing footprint in crypto and prediction markets has translated into billions in new wealth, fueled by digital coin offerings and deals with prediction market firms.

Trump’s eldest son, Don Jr., is both an investor in Polymarket, through his investment firm 1789 Capital, and an adviser to Kalshi and Polymarket. The president’s publicly traded media company partnered with Crypto.com last October on what the firms called an exclusive prediction market venture.

At the same time, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a small agency that regulates those industries, has undergone a dramatic retreat from enforcement, and staffers say a series of firings sent a clear warning not to make life difficult for the companies they are supposed to oversee, The New York Times reports.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-family-faces-damning-grift-210922440.html

Crypto is the preferred currency of money launderers.

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Trump Family Faces Damning New Grift Revelations (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 8 hrs ago OP
Mobsters UpInArms 8 hrs ago #1
I wonder how the new wife will look in orange prison garb. Irish_Dem 8 hrs ago #2
In the words of Paul Krugman... FalloutShelter 8 hrs ago #3
"...damning..." BadgerMom 5 hrs ago #4
Worth a click for the last graphic. littlemissmartypants 5 hrs ago #5
To all the people.... SergeStorms 5 hrs ago #6
Thoroughly corrupt and gross has been his trademark for 79 years LymphocyteLover 5 hrs ago #7
"Piggy Family Faces Damning New Grift Revelations" MorbidButterflyTat 5 hrs ago #8

BadgerMom

(3,441 posts)
4. "...damning..."
Mon May 25, 2026, 03:08 PM
5 hrs ago

I wish. Nothing damns these monsters. DJT has spent his life escaping consequences.

littlemissmartypants

(34,506 posts)
5. Worth a click for the last graphic.
Mon May 25, 2026, 03:18 PM
5 hrs ago

Full disclosure: I didn't read the article. I already know the content.

Crypto is the currency of CRIMINALS.

SergeStorms

(20,849 posts)
6. To all the people....
Mon May 25, 2026, 03:22 PM
5 hrs ago

who jumped aboard the Trump crypto-con, remember......Trump bankrupted two casinos and got away without any consequences.

Just how in hell do you bankrupt a freaking casino, let alone two of them? Casinos print money.

Good luck with all your investments in TrumpCo. They're all designed to pay off the very top of the pyramid. Everyone else is a sucker.

MorbidButterflyTat

(4,775 posts)
8. "Piggy Family Faces Damning New Grift Revelations"
Mon May 25, 2026, 03:42 PM
5 hrs ago

Again with the facing! They don't face anything! They walk away laughing with another billion or two.

Jeez the disingenuous "news" is sickening!

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