Trump Sold Stake In Crypto Company, Document Suggests
Trump visits a crypto-themed bar in New York City in September, the month he unveiled World Liberty Financial.
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Around the time that Donald Trump took office, the Trump Organization made moves to sell a stake in one of the president’s crypto companies.
That revelation was buried in a letter that an independent monitor overseeing the president’s business submitted to a New York judge last month. The letter noted that the Trump Organization had repurposed an old entity to enter into an agreement related to World Liberty Financial, a decentralized-finance project that sold at least $550 million of crypto tokens, much of it in a mania-fueled blitz leading up to the inauguration.
“In January 2025, the…
