Trump family's net worth has increased by $2.9 billion thanks to crypto investment

^^ Monetizing White House dinners for personal gain is good now. Dontcha know?

 

There's been just one to make a run at fake 'whataboutism', but we haven't see a lot of Trump supporters in here to disavow this overt and flagrant corruption.

Are they just taking their time on this, or going the same silent route they did on the January 6 attacks? Seems pretty weird the criminality that they'll support these days all along from him.

 

history says they will either do nothing or they will do something that leaves a loophole in there for some to take advantage of.

 

"Corruption rules but does it have to be so obvious" - Jersey

Gatorknights would have a good post here too about real estate corruption.

 

The criminality and grift continues. Republicans and MAGA remain silent and complicit.

Looks like we might possibly have an idea on why Trump totally capitulated on his China tariffs; a CCP-funded crypto gift/grift.


Tiny Company With China Ties Announces Big Purchase of Trump Cryptocurrency



A struggling technology company that has ties to China and relies on TikTok made an unusual announcement this week. It had secured funding to buy as much as $300 million of $TRUMP, the so-called memecoin marketed by President Trump.

GD Culture Group, a publicly traded firm with a Chinese subsidiary, has only eight employees, its public filings show, and recorded zero revenue last year from an e-commerce business it operates on TikTok, the Chinese-owned video-sharing app.

 

^ A criminal will be hosting criminals in the White House, in exchange for crypto grift?

Who would have imagined?

 

Thanks for repin' our fallen brother. Knights was a good one.

 

Someone tried to track down more information on the company that invested $100 million in Trump's crypto venture and turns out the company may not exist:

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/trump-crypto-world-liberty-financial-aqua-1-foundation/

On June 26, a Dubai-based company called Aqua 1 Foundation announced a $100 million investment in World Liberty Financial, the crypto company closely affiliated with the families of President Donald Trump and Steve Witkoff, the Trump administration’s Middle East diplomatic envoy. As is typical for these kinds of deals, Aqua 1 was buying $100 million worth of $WLFI, a crypto token created by World Liberty Financial. According to the terms of the agreement between Trump and World Liberty Financial, Trump receives 75 percent of the revenue from token sales, meaning that the president was now possibly $75 million richer. And Aqua 1 Foundation—whose existence was completely unknown before it published its June 26 press release—had become one of the largest benefactors for Trump’s crypto businesses, outspending Tron founder Justin Sun, who put $75 million into $WLFI and about $19 million into $TRUMP, the president’s memecoin. (The Securities and Exchange Commission announced shortly after that purchase that it was pausing its multibillion-dollar fraud case against Sun.)

In the annals of Donald Trump’s crypto corruption, the $100 million Aqua 1 Foundation deal stands out for more than just its size: There’s very little evidence that Aqua 1 Foundation exists at all. The Aqua 1 website, which was registered on May 28, 2025, contains no information about the company beyond some fintech buzzwords and an e-mail address. The company’s original X account was suspended, as was an account for an apparently affiliated company called BlockRock RWA (“RWA” refers to the practice of creating blockchain tokens for “real world assets”). Searching public databases, including of businesses in the United Arab Emirates, I’ve been unable to find any corporate registration, official filings, or other documents attesting to the existence of World Liberty Financial’s newest and biggest investor.

The only person who has been publicly identified in connection with Aqua 1 Foundation is a man named Dave Lee, who claims to have cofounded the company. On Lee’s X account, which was registered in December 2023 and has a cartoon avatar, he’s only posted a handful of times, with all of the messages appearing after June 27, 2025. He lists his location as “São Paulo-NY-HK-Abu Dhabi” and responded to one questioner in Portuguese. And that is where the trail ends. I’ve been unable to find any other social media or professional profiles associated with a Dave Lee in his capacity as leader of what is supposed to be a very well-heeled Middle Eastern crypto fund doing business with the first family.

 

the left still looking and hoping for something they can use to take Trump down- makes me laugh

 

While Hunter Biden did make millions, a small fraction of what the Trump crime family earned by the way, scamming Ukrainian and Chinese interests by creating the impression that he could influence policy through his father there is absolutely no evidence that he actually did so and there is no evidence that Joe Biden ever benefited. A big deal was made of conversations between Hunter and Chinese interests discovered on his laptop in which he implied that he could influence "the big guy". At the time of those conversations (2018) Joe Biden was out of office and the Republicans controlled the House, Senate and the Presidency. There was no way that Old Joe could have influenced policy even if he wanted to. In contrast the people who have enriched the Trump family received a significant return on their investments in the Dear Leader and the boys (Don Jr and Eric).

 

While it probably still wouldn't result in the removal of Trump from office thanks to sycophants in the Republican Party if the Democrats regain control of the House impeachment no 3 is a virtual certainty. If today's Republican party had the integrity of the Republican Party of 1974 the chances are that Trump would end up going the way of Richard Nixon. Unfortunately for the country and fortunately for the Dear Leader Trump will almost certainly serve his full term.

 

You have quite a sense of humor.

 

That makes them smart.

https://youtu.be/oVj0QvXYskM?si=tjXjIzGK4IBKS-E3

 

Kind of like what Trump did when he was in the private sector when he managed Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts into bankruptcy screwing the company's shareholders while paying himself an estimated $40 to $80 million in total compensation. What you're saying is that enriching one's self and one's family through corruption and flagrantly violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution is an indication that Donald and the boys are smart. Got it. Maybe you're right. Getting away with corruption and monetizing the presidency maybe an indication that they are smart.