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Trump made $1.4bn from crypto in one year. Is Justin Sun the man who helped him do it?

Business | The Guardian · 15h ago · 🇺🇸 United States
Trump made $1.4bn from crypto in one year. Is Justin Sun the man who helped him do it?

The entrepreneur is known in Washington as the financial power behind the president’s crypto fortune. How did Sun’s business love-in with the Trump family spiral into dueling lawsuits? The most infamous financial scandal in US presidential history – the 1920s Teapot Dome affair – involved then president Warren G Harding’s interior secretary, Albert Fall, taking roughly $400,000 in bribes. Adjusted for inflation, that’s about $6m today. Last year, Donald Trump made at least $2.2bn ; his single year of income is on the order of 200 to 300 times larger than the bribe that defined “presidential co

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