Inside Trump's $2.2 Billion Financial Disclosure: Crypto, Pardons, and Corporate Shakedowns
Frank Figliuzzi
There’s no way our founders could have foreseen that on the 250th anniversary of the republic, a corrupt American president would have amassed billions of dollars in personal wealth in one year without so much as an iota of accountability.
Nor could those visionaries have imagined that the institutions of government, including the Justice Department, the Pentagon, and Intelligence agencies, would willingly facilitate his corruption. Perhaps the founders would be most astonished, as we approach this momentous milestone, by the fact that at least half of Congress – the people’s representatives, went silently along for the ruinous ride.
This week, we learned that Donald Trump’s 2025 mandated financial disclosure reveals over $2.2 billion in income last year alone. Roughly half of that windfall to Trump and his family came from crypto currency investments, including Trump’s own memecoin ($TRUMP) – a product that left hundreds of thousands of Trump adoring investors with punishing losses.
The skids were greased for Trump’s foray into the nebulous netherworld of crypto when his handpicked Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she was disbanding the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, responsible for prosecuting digital asset and money laundering crimes. Bondi also scrapped the DOJ’s Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative, which tracks global leaders’ cash, pilfered from their nations, through cryptocurrency platforms.
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