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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(116,200 posts)
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 02:34 PM Friday

Trump crypto venture partners with platform linked to Middle East militants

Dec 12 (Reuters) - A crypto venture recently unveiled by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and his new Middle East envoy, billionaire Steve Witkoff, has partnered with a crypto platform that authorities and financial experts say has been used by criminals and Iran-backed militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah.

World Liberty Financial Inc , founded by the Witkoff family two months before November’s U.S. election with Trump as a financial beneficiary, presents concerns over ethics and conflicts of interest, say six specialists in U.S. government ethics.

Among their biggest concerns is World Liberty’s new partner: Tron crypto platform.

Quicker and cheaper than Bitcoin, the Tron network has overtaken its rival as a vehicle for crypto transfers associated with groups designated as terror organizations by Israel, the United States and other countries, Reuters reported in 2023 , citing interviews with seven financial crime experts and cryptocurrency investigations specialists.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/trump-crypto-venture-partners-with-platform-linked-middle-east-militants-2024-12-12/

Ethics? We don't need no stinking ethics. Just give me your money - Donny Dipshit.

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Trump crypto venture partners with platform linked to Middle East militants (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Friday OP
People are looking at this the wrong way. FalloutShelter Friday #1
US Mob boss taking in international crime syndicates. Irish_Dem Friday #2
what. SteadySeas Friday #3

FalloutShelter

(12,815 posts)
1. People are looking at this the wrong way.
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 02:51 PM
Friday

All the policy stuff is just blather. To the Trump crime family, this is a heist.Period.

SteadySeas

(19 posts)
3. what.
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 03:54 PM
Friday

Leavitt: "President Trump didn't get into politics for profit" What are these people drinking>

Clark should be waving some of those red flags in places where people sit up and take notice; Treasury or DHS.
38 days left before it's too late. Yesterday would have been good.

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