Eric Trump’s American Bitcoin: Inside the newest arm of the Trump crypto empire
On a brisk Monday morning before Thanksgiving, a Secret Service motorcade rolled through Vega, a town of fewer than 1,000 people in the Texas Panhandle. Someone of national significance had flown in on a private jet from Florida. His coming to town was “kept very, very quiet,” said Quincy Taylor, a county commissioner, the owner of Vega’s only grocery store, and the editor of the town’s newspaper. “I probably wasn’t supposed to know,” she admitted.
The VIP broke his silence a few hours later. “Hey, friends, it’s Eric Trump,” President Trump’s son said in a post on Instagram. Behind him, rows of computer servers stretched into the distance. “Welcome to American Bitcoin.”
The post came after the 42-year-old…
