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The White House will have you know the president is not involved in any conflicts of interest.
“Neither the President nor his family have ever engaged, or will ever engage, in conflicts of interest,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said this week when asked — not for the first time — about how her boss’s business empire interacts with his day job.
Now consider where President Donald Trump’s business interests lie: making a mint from the crypto industry his policies are helping to grow.
Trump has memecoins named for himself and his wife. A company he founded with his sons and his top diplomatic negotiator has a stablecoin and digital tokens. The publicly traded company that runs his social media platform is pivoting to
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