Christie Calls Trump’s Crypto Windfall a Putin-Style Grift
TL;DR
Christie used ABC's This Week to attack Donald Trump after a federal ethics filing showed Trump earned about $1.4 billion in 2025 from crypto ventures, including more than $500 million from World Liberty Financial and $635 million from the Trump meme coin, plus millions from media settlements, Trump-branded watches, Bibles, sneakers and NFTs. He framed the windfall as Putin‑style corruption and warned the scale could trigger Emoluments Clause concerns, while Trump and White House aides push back on conflicts of interest.
- Chris Christie Compares Trump’s $1.4 Billion Crypto Haul to Putin-Style Corruption The Daily Beast
- Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin The New York Times
- The Unprecedented Profiteering Revealed by Donald Trump’s Financial Disclosure The New Yorker
- ‘I’m Now Broke’: Meet The Investors Who Lost Billions Buying Trump Stocks And Crypto Forbes
- How Trump made more than $1B on crypto when most of his coin's investors lost money 6abc Philadelphia
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