“The president agreed to not one but two different ethics provisions that were unprecedented in nature,” Witt said. Apart from an eventual willingness to submit to rules that would have forced Trump to divest crypto interests or place them in a blind trust, the White House was also ready to concede to letting state attorneys general pursue the federal government if it failed to police ethical lapses, he said.

“That is without a doubt the most unprecedented, far-reaching, stringent, restrictive ethics provision that has ever been agreed to by any president,” Witt said.

He said the Democrats accusing Trump of an improper conflict for steering digital assets policy while controlling a crypto empire is “somewhat ironic, given that we’re…