Trump family adds US$1.3 billion of crypto wealth in span of weeks
[NEW YORK] It took just a few eventful weeks for US President Donald Trump’s family to rack up about US$1.3 billion from two crypto ventures, each less than a year old.
The haul from crypto firm World Liberty Financial and separate mining operation American Bitcoin shows how still-nascent projects are already translating into tangible wealth for the first family. The sums rival the values of long-held golf and resort properties that had been synonymous with the Trumps, whose fortune now stands at US$7.7 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
The president’s two eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, still share the role of executive vice-president at the Trump Organization, but are increasingly the faces of…
