House Judiciary Committee Democrats are accusing Trump of transforming the presidency into a personal cryptocurrency profit machine.House Judiciary Committee Democrats are accusing Trump of transforming the presidency into a personal cryptocurrency profit machine.

Trump turned White House into a crypto ATM: Raskin

2025/11/29 04:00
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House Judiciary Committee Democrats are accusing President Donald Trump of transforming the presidency into a personal cryptocurrency profit machine.

Summary
  • Trump’s family collected billions in assets and over $800 million from token sales in 2025, while dismantling investor protections.
  • Foreign governments and corporate allies funneled money into Trump-branded crypto projects in exchange for favorable regulatory treatment.
  • Raskin is urgeing Congress to implement reforms to restore accountability and prevent corruption.

According to a blistering new staff report released by Rep. Jamie Raskin, the committee’s ranking member, Trump and his family have used the Oval Office as a launchpad for a sprawling network of crypto ventures—ballooning their net worth by billions while unraveling safeguards meant to protect everyday investors.

In findings that read like a mash-up of Silicon Valley and House of Cards, the report claims the Trump family amassed as much as $11.6 billion in crypto assets and pocketed more than $800 million in income from token sales in the first half of 2025 alone.

Raskin didn’t mince words in the report:

According to the 78-page report—titled “Trump, Crypto, and a New Age of Corruption”—foreign governments, state-linked investors, and politically aligned corporations allegedly funneled money into Trump-branded crypto ventures such as World Liberty Financial and the $TRUMP memecoin.

In return, donors allegedly received favorable treatment ranging from regulatory rollbacks to the quiet shutdown of federal investigations involving major crypto firms, including Coinbase, Gemini, Ripple, Crypto.com, and Uniswap.

The report also claims Trump issued pardons and rolled back sanctions for fraudsters and criminal actors who provided financial backing to his crypto ventures. Meanwhile, the Administration dismantled key financial integrity safeguards, including dissolving the Department of Justice’s National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team and scrapping investor protection rules introduced under President Biden.

The timing, Democrats say, makes the picture even starker

While the Trump family was allegedly raking in billions, the President and his allies in Congress were simultaneously allowing the federal government to shut down—jeopardizing healthcare tax credits, food benefits for women and children, and paychecks for active-duty troops.

Raskin warned that the findings expose gaping vulnerabilities in U.S. conflict-of-interest, bribery, and campaign finance laws.

This wasn’t a pro-crypto agenda, Raskin argues. The Trump-family “enrichment plan” is a pay-to-play setup for foreign interests looking for “secret channels” of influence.

The report urges Congress to pursue sweeping reforms to restore basic ethics, accountability, and transparency to the presidency.

Trump and his White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, have long maintained that the Trump family business is entirely separate from the goings-on in the Oval Office.

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