Mike Rogers’ crypto evolution
Crypto money is lining up behind former Rep. Mike Rogers’ (R-Mich.) second run for the Senate. But well before Rogers received a crypto PAC endorsement last month, the Michigan Republican warned that cryptocurrency was a dangerous force.
In a string of comments from 2017, Rogers repeatedly railed against Bitcoin as an unregulated facilitator for illegal activity.
“I’m not a big fan of Bitcoin,” Rogers said during a 2017 speech. “It’s primarily used in illicit trades… They use it in human trafficking. And every international organized crime event you can think of is using it.”
In a 2017 op-ed for the New York Daily News, Rogers laid out why Bitcoin is…
