#GriftersGonnaGrift in #Trumpistan. #Memecoin et al. @georgetakei

@wdlindsy
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was once seen as an ethical red line #memecoin #$Trump

As soon as they got the special VIP dinber invite with #Trump they started selling! (some reporter on #MSNBC)

#Leavitt “is absurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency."

#MaxineWaters “Nowhere is Trump’s blatant disregard and disrespect for the rule of law... to promote shady, fraudulent #crypto...no true purpose other than to pad his pockets"

The former NBA star #LamarOdom — now promoting his own #memecoin, $ODOM — posted on social media that he would be attending the event, & appeared in guests’ photos from inside #Trump’s club.

The dinner list also included #NicholasPinto, a 25-year-old entrepreneur from Cranford, NJ, who first became rich by selling scooter wheels when he was 13 & has since branched out to build a sprawling moneymaking social media presence & invest in #crypto.

But none of these profit-seeking pitches has been more explicit than the #memecoin dinner. The event was unlike anything in American history — not a campaign fund-raiser but a gathering arranged by #Trump’s business partners to directly enrich the first family.

As guests were flowing into the club, protesters held signs with slogans like “Stop Crypto Corruption,” “Release the guest list” & “No Kings.”

@HarriettMB @samiamsam
I just heard #JohnFugelsang make a brilliant point:

"If T****'s private #MemeCoin dinner last night wasn't illegal b/c 'He was doing it on his own time', then the #IMMUNITY ruling does not apply."

His moron #cult SWOONS talking about "how he has given up a life of luxury to serve as #Potus FOR NO PAY."

But ask them to defend him receiving a luxury $400 MILLION "Flying Palace", and they claim it's a gift to "the American people, not him, just like The Statue of Liberty!"

So I can visit/tour this jet?

No.

Other presidents will use it after he leaves?

No. It's going to "his presidential library".

And his #MemeCoin dinner? "He's doing that "on his own time" (as if he stops being Potus.)

@Tengrain > I'm trying to get this to trend:

#Republicans tried to turn #HunterBidensLaptop into a "#ConstitutionalCrisis", claiming foreign gov'ts giving jobs to #HunterBiden were just attempts to influence FORMER VP NOT YET POTUS Joe #Biden, and being REIMBURSED BY HIS DIL a mere $40K was actually #China laundering a #bribe to a FORMER VP.

5 years later, #Dictators are #laundering MILLIONS DIRECTLY TO T**** via his #MemeCoin & gifting him a $400M "flying palace". Silence.
#GOPHypocrisy.

A #crypto investor known as Ogle, who made No. 22 on the leader board with over 250,000 #Trump #memecoin worth about $3.2 million, told WaPo he believed criticism of the dinner was “goofy” given that political figures solicit money in exchange for access all the time.

Ogle, known in the crypto world for his work in recovering stolen crypto funds, has for years concealed his name & face in public, wearing glasses, a hat & a mask.

Sheldon Xia posted on X this week a message, written in Chinese, saying that he would attend #Trump’s gala dinner & private VIP tour….

#FreightTechnologies, a logistics firm focused on #US - #Mexico #border shipments, said last month that it would raise up to $20 million from an investment firm, ATW Partners, to buy Trump’s #crypto #memecoin in hopes they could offer the firm an “effective way to advocate” on #trade.

For most of the people who poured money into #Trump’s #memecoin, Americans can know only 2 pieces of information about them: a long string of code, known as their #crypto wallet address, & the account’s self-chosen, 4-character code name. The leader board’s top spenders include the crypto wallets “JIGL,” “Niu” & “REKT.”

Some coin holders have said they’ve made the guest list, including Sheldon Xia, the founder of #BitMart, a crypto exchange registered in the #CaymanIslands.

Concerns are fueled by the number of apparent foreign investors involved in the coin. Roughly half of the top 220 #memecoin holders have received coins from #crypto exchanges such as #Binance that say they reject customers from the #UnitedStates…. 19 of the top 25, who will attend an “ultra-exclusive private VIP reception” w/ #Trump & a “special tour,” bought coins from similar exchanges. (The event’s site had said the tour was of the White House, but it no longer specifies the tour’s site)
#law