It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
The president’s older sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, spent the past two weeks traveling the world and announcing deals, many of which will financially benefit their father.
World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in ways without precedent in modern American history.
President Trump’s cryptocurrency firm has eroded the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in ways without precedent in American history. David Yaffe-Bellany, a technology reporter for The New York Times covering the crypto industry, describes how it works.
The move to dismiss William A. Burck underscored both the entanglements between Mr. Trump’s presidency and company and the degree to which he will look to target people he believes have wronged him.
Mayor Eric Adams’s charm campaign involved phone calls to the Trumps and a meeting with Steve Bannon. Mr. Trump showed sympathy for the mayor, as his administration moved to drop charges against Mr. Adams.
The president’s promotion of a speculative digital coin left some crypto investors feeling blindsided, while others saw it as a gimmick that undermined the industry’s credibility.
The plan illustrates the continued ambitions of the Trump family to forge new international deals even as President Trump has returned to the White House.
The new business venture by the Trump family is generating intensifying criticism, even as it has turned into an overnight phenomenon, generating a windfall on paper.
The president-elect and his family have a direct and potentially lucrative stake in the sale of a cryptocurrency product that surged in value in the hours after going on sale, days before his inauguration.
Even before the start of the new administration, there has been repeated blurring of lines between the federal government efforts and Trump family businesses.