Binance paid $450,000 to lobbying firm Checkmate Government Relations, run by Donald Trump Jr.’s ally Ches McDowell, in the months before Trump pardoned convicted money-launderer Changpeng Zhao. The lobbying campaign coincided with Binance forming a high-level task force to negotiate with …
The U.S. Army awarded Unusual Machines a major contract to produce 3,500 drone motors, with expectations of 20,000 additional components in future orders, months after Donald Trump Jr. joined the company’s advisory board in November 2024. Trump Jr. holds a disclosed $4 million stake in the …
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President Trump issued a full pardon to Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the founder of Binance cryptocurrency exchange, who had pleaded guilty to enabling money laundering and served four months in federal prison. The pardon came days after Binance.US added support for Trump family’s USD1 stablecoin and …
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President Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who served only four months of his sentence for money-laundering violations, after Binance provided critical infrastructure support for the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial crypto venture. The pardon came after Binance formed a …
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Trump’s proposed direct pharmaceutical sales to consumers would specifically benefit BlinkRx, where Donald Trump Jr. serves on the board, and Cantor Fitzgerald, connected to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s family. The policy change represents textbook corruption: government officials …
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The New York Appellate Division, in a unanimous five-judge decision, threw out the $527 million civil fraud judgment against President Donald Trump and his companies, ruling the penalty was “excessive” and violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on excessive fines. The appeals …
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Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. launched New America Acquisition I Corp, a $300 million SPAC targeting US manufacturing companies. The blank-check firm aims to acquire businesses with an enterprise value of at least $700 million, focusing on revitalizing domestic manufacturing and strengthening …
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Trump Mobile, led by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., launched a comprehensive wireless service offering a $499 smartphone, $47.45 monthly plan, and bundled services including telehealth and car insurance. The venture operates on Liberty Mobile’s network and targets conservative consumers with …
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Eric Trump founded American Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency venture backed by Hut 8, raising $220 million and planning to build a substantial US bitcoin reserve. The company went public via a Nasdaq merger, with the Trump sons owning a majority stake.
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Paul Atkins, serving as SEC chair in the second Trump administration, attended the launch party for Trump’s Georgetown MAGA private member’s club before approving a Donald Trump Jr.-backed company, GrabAGun, to trade publicly, raising concerns about potential regulatory capture.
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President Trump launched a new fragrance line called Victory 45-47, priced at $249 per bottle, as part of his ongoing strategy to monetize his presidential brand. The launch includes both men’s and women’s fragrances, with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defending the …
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The Trump Organization launched Trump Mobile, a new mobile phone service featuring the T1 smartphone priced at $499 and a $47.45 monthly plan dubbed ‘The 47 Plan’. Positioned as a patriotic, American-made mobile service, the launch capitalizes on Trump’s political brand and aims to …
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Donald Trump Jr. has amassed significant wealth and power through cryptocurrency ventures like World Liberty Financial and American Bitcoin, establishing himself as a major Washington power broker. His ventures include a World Liberty Financial stablecoin USD1 that became the fifth-largest globally, …
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In 2025, the Trump Administration has established sophisticated mechanisms for business-government coordination, including the American Growth Partnership and the Executive Branch private club. The latter, co-founded by Donald Trump Jr. and charging a $500,000 membership fee, provides wealthy CEOs …
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Nexo Capital announced its return to the U.S. market during a conference in Bulgaria, featuring Donald Trump Jr. as a keynote speaker. The company, which previously paid a $45 million regulatory settlement, cited ‘productive’ discussions with regulators and optimism about the current …
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Donald Trump Jr. visited Romania on April 28, 2025, as part of the ‘Trump Business Vision 2025’ tour, arriving just before the country’s rescheduled presidential election. The visit was strategically timed to counter Chinese influence in Eastern Europe, promote US business …
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Donald Trump Jr. launched ‘Executive Branch’, an exclusive private club in Georgetown for ultra-wealthy Trump allies, with a $500,000 membership fee and founding members including tech moguls David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, and the Winklevoss twins.
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Michael Wolff revealed that the Trump team suggested to Warner Bros. Discovery that giving Donald Trump Jr. an outdoors show could help the network curry favor with the White House, highlighting ongoing attempts to leverage media relationships for political advantage
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In an unprecedented move, the Trump family launched a multi-pronged cryptocurrency empire in 2025, establishing ventures including American Bitcoin Corp (a Bitcoin mining company), World Liberty Financial token, and multiple cryptocurrency projects spanning mining, NFTs, and stablecoins. The family …
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The Trump family partners with Hut 8 Corp. to launch American Bitcoin Corp., a new Bitcoin mining venture aimed at becoming a leading strategic Bitcoin mining and reserve company. Eric Trump serves as co-founder and chief strategy officer, with the company targeting a Nasdaq listing and expansive …
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Donald Trump Jr. met with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić on March 11, 2025, his second
visit in six months, to promote a Trump International Hotel project in Belgrade—the first
Trump hotel in Europe. The 175-room hotel with 1,500 luxury apartments will be built on
the site of the former Yugoslav …
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President Donald Trump rebrands himself as the ‘crypto president’ through multiple cryptocurrency ventures, including World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a $TRUMP meme coin, and American Bitcoin, while also establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve through an executive order.
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Trump Media & Technology Group awarded $800,000 in stock to Kash Patel on January 28, 2025, just days before his Senate confirmation hearing for FBI director. Patel claimed he would not accept the stock ’to avoid any appearance of conflict’, but the award raised significant ethical …
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The Swiss National Bank, Switzerland’s central bank majority owned by public entities,
purchased 111,300 shares of Trump Media & Technology Group valued at $1.78 million
during Q3 2024, according to SEC disclosures. By February 2025, the bank’s holdings
increased to 157,500 shares …
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Trump Media begins trading under ticker DJT at $8.4 billion valuation, with Trump holding 69-78.75% of shares, creating unprecedented presidential conflict of interest through media and financial entanglement. Trading was volatile, with stock price jumping over 50% and trading briefly halted.
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Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron issued a devastating 92-page ruling ordering Donald Trump to pay $354.9 million in disgorgement plus $98.6 million in prejudgment interest (totaling approximately $454 million), and barred Trump from serving as an officer or director of any New York …
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January 6th Committee investigation found tech platforms systematically bent rules to avoid penalizing conservative content out of fear of political reprisals. Internal documents revealed Facebook maintained “white lists” exempting conservative accounts (Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., …
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New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a comprehensive 220-page civil lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court against Donald Trump, his three adult children (Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka), former CFO Allen Weisselberg, former controller Jeffrey McConney, and ten Trump Organization entities, …
In April 2022, Donald Trump endorsed J.D. Vance for the Ohio Senate race, a pivotal moment facilitated by Peter Thiel’s unprecedented $15 million investment in the Protect Ohio Values SuperPAC. This financial backing marked the most expensive single Senate candidate support in state history, …
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New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a motion to compel Donald Trump and his two eldest children (Ivanka and Donald Jr.) to appear for depositions and provide documents, publicly revealing for the first time that her three-year investigation had “uncovered significant evidence that …
Nick Fuentes and his “Groyper Army” followers disrupted a Turning Point USA promotional event for Donald Trump Jr.’s book “Triggered” at UCLA, forcing the event to end after just 30 minutes instead of the planned two hours. The event, featuring Trump Jr., Charlie Kirk, …
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At a January 11, 2017 press conference, President-elect Trump’s tax attorney Sheri Dillon unveiled a plan to address conflicts of interest that ethics experts universally condemned as woefully inadequate. Rather than divesting from his businesses as ethics norms require, Trump would merely …
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Donald Trump Jr. accepted meeting at Trump Tower after being promised “official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary” as “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.” Meeting included Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, Rinat …
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Alexander Torshin, working with Maria Butina, requested that Donald Trump meet with him on the sidelines of the National Rifle Association’s convention in Louisville, Kentucky from May 20-22, 2016. While Torshin never succeeded in meeting with then-candidate Trump himself, he did secure a …
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At a New York real estate conference, Donald Trump Jr. stated: “Russians make up a pretty
disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in
from Russia.” He specifically mentioned Dubai, Trump SoHo, and New York properties. This
admission revealed …
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