Elizabeth Warren is sounding the alarm on Trump’s ‘spy sheikh’ crypto deal
Senator Elizabeth Warren is calling for congressional hearings after new reporting revealed that the United Arab Emirates’ top intelligence official secretly took a nearly 50% stake in a Trump-era crypto company.
According to a Wall Street Journal investigation, an entity backed by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan—the United Arab Emirates’ national security adviser and a key power broker known as the “Spy Sheikh”—quietly purchased a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial for $500 million just days before Donald Trump’s inauguration last year.
The deal, signed by Eric Trump, reportedly funneled $187 million directly to Trump family entities, and at least $31 million to entities tied to Trump ally Steve Witkoff, who had recently…
