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Trump Has Made $1.8 Billion From Crypto While President. A Corruption Researcher Explains How.
30 minutes Posted Jun 5, 2026 at 8:00 pm.
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Zach Everson is the research director at Public Citizen and the head of their Trump Accountability Project. He is a former Forbes reporter who has spent a decade tracking how Donald Trump uses the presidency to make money. This term, he says, the scale is incomparable to the first. Forbes estimates Trump has made roughly $1.9 billion from crypto since being reelected. That includes the meme coin, the USD1 stable coin backed by a UAE-linked investment firm, and World Liberty Financial, which ...