Trump Family's Crypto Cash Boom Draws Regulator Scrutiny
TL;DR
The Daily Beast reports that the Trump family’s wealth is booming through crypto and prediction markets as the CFTC retreats from enforcement; Don Jr. sits on Polymarket and advises Kalshi, Polymarket’s value has surged, and GOP lawmakers are blasting an $1.8B Jan. 6 payouts fund while the White House seeks a multibillion underground bunker budget—highlighting moneyed influence and growing intra‑party division.
Topics:businesspolitics#corruption#cryptocurrencies#donald-j-trump#donald-trump-jr#politics#regulation
- Trump Family Faces Damning New Grift Revelations The Daily Beast
- How Prediction Markets and Crypto Firms Steamrolled a Watchdog Agency The New York Times
- NYT investigation alleges CFTC purged staff who questioned Trump-tied crypto firms The Block
- The Trump Administration Is Shielding Prediction Markets Truthout
- Under the Trump administration, a government agency that oversees crypto and the prediction markets has purged career officials, dialed back crypto enforcement and boosted industries in which President Trump’s family is heavily invested, a New York Times facebook.com
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