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“Foreign Policy for Sale”: Trump Cryptocurrency Venture Secures Major Investment from UAE Firm

HeadlineMay 02, 2025

The founder of the Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture said Thursday that a fund backed by Abu Dhabi will make a $2 billion investment in crypto exchange Binance using a Trump-branded crypto coin. The deal could generate hundreds of millions of dollars for the Trump family, constituting a major contribution by a foreign government to the president of the United States. Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, responded, “This is far more than is captured by the term 'conflict of interest.' It is foreign policy for sale and justice for sale.”

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