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Crypto and the presidency

Memecoins, World Liberty, a dinner for top holders, and the cases that went away

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How much he made

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More than $635 million from one line of the disclosure.

Trump’s financial disclosure for 2025, certified in June 2026, lists $635,068,835 in royalties to CIC Digital, his company, for the license behind the $TRUMP coin and related products. It also lists proceeds from World Liberty Financial token sales and payments to crypto wallets. Reuters reported his crypto income exceeded $1.4 billion; different tallies count different things. [1][2]

The sources

  1. OGE — Trump annual disclosure for calendar 2025, certified June 30, 2026 ↗

    Official annual disclosure covers calendar 2025. Schedule 1, printed pages 1 and 8–9 of the appended 23-page schedule, contains relevant crypto lines. Entity income, asset values and wallet distributions cannot simply be added as personal net profit.

  2. Reuters — Trump responds to disclosure of crypto income, July 1, 2026 ↗

    Original official record or reporting identified by date in its title; read the linked source for its full scope.

What buyers got

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Dinner, a settled case and a pardon. Each has an innocent explanation and a suspicious one.

In May 2025 the largest holders of $TRUMP were invited to a dinner with him; Reuters found buyers from around the world, many anonymous. Buying the coin did not send all the money to Trump, but his companies earn from it. [1]

Justin Sun, a crypto entrepreneur facing an SEC fraud case, invested $75 million in World Liberty. The SEC paused the case in 2025 and settled it in March 2026 for a $10 million penalty against one of his companies, dropping other claims, without admission of wrongdoing. [2][3][4]

In October 2025 Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, Binance’s founder, who served four months for failing to maintain an anti-money-laundering program. Before the pardon, congressional Democrats had questioned Binance’s business links to World Liberty’s USD1 stablecoin. [5][6]

The sources

  1. Reuters — Global investors attend the Trump memecoin dinner, May 22, 2025 ↗

    Original official record or reporting identified by date in its title; read the linked source for its full scope.

  2. House Financial Services Democrats — Questions about Sun investment and SEC pause, 2025 ↗

    Democratic lawmakers’ oversight request establishes their questions and cited investment timeline; its accusation of improper influence is not a judicial finding.

  3. SEC — March 5, 2026 proposed Sun/Rainberry settlement and dismissals ↗

    The SEC describes its civil enforcement resolution. It does not adjudicate whether presidential influence caused the decision.

  4. SEC — Qualifying judgment dated March 9, 2026, Sun litigation ↗

    Official SEC notice records the March 9, 2026 qualifying judgment; read alongside the March 5 proposed terms.

  5. DOJ Pardon Attorney — Trump clemency grants, 2025–present ↗

    Official grant dates and offenses. A warrant date can differ from the date a pardon was publicly announced.

  6. House Financial Services Democrats — USD1 and Binance conflict questions, July 2025 ↗

    Democratic lawmakers’ statement describing the USD1/Binance business link and demanding scrutiny; not proof of a purchased pardon.

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