Trump Blackballs Lobbying Firm Over Controversy Related to His ‘Crypto Strategic Reserve’ Truth Social Post: Report
President Donald Trump has reportedly blackballed a lobbying firm that he thinks manipulated him into posting on social media about XRP.
In early March, Trump announced on his Truth Social platform that he directed the Presidential Working Group on Digital Asset Markets “to move forward on a Crypto Strategic Reserve that includes XRP, SOL, and ADA.”
Politico, citing “two people familiar with the incident,” reports that Trump was goaded into making the post by an employee of the lobbying firm Ballard Partners. The unnamed employee reportedly “buttonholed” Trump at Mar-a-Lago and encouraged him multiple times to publish the post, even providing him with the text of a message she thought the president should…
