Tuxedos, luxury cars and a former NBA star
“The president is attending it in his personal time. It is not a White House dinner. It’s not taking place here at the White House,” said Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary.
But event organizers did not market it as a personal event. The dinner’s website says: “President Donald J. Trump is Known as the ‘Crypto President!’ At this Intimate Private Dinner, Hear First-Hand President Trump Talk about the Future of Crypto.”
According to multiple photos posted on X by people who said they were inside the event, Trump was due to speak from a podium with the presidential seal.
White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said this week that Trump was not acting to…
