{"id":12082,"date":"2025-02-08T18:46:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T18:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=12082"},"modified":"2025-02-08T18:46:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T18:46:30","slug":"think-tank-calls-for-doj-probe-into-trump-meme-coin-over-possible-anti-bribery-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=12082","title":{"rendered":"Think Tank Calls for DOJ Probe Into TRUMP Meme Coin Over Possible Anti-Bribery Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A progressive think tank has urged\u00a0the U.S. Department of Justice\u00a0(DOJ) to scrutinize the legality of the meme coin TRUMP (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">TRUMP<\/a>) launched by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/24\/11\/42254953\/scaramucci-on-trump-deportation-plan-were-going-to-have-a-stock-market-crash\">President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: The nonprofit consumer advocacy group,\u00a0<strong>Public Citizen<\/strong>, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/article\/doj-oge-must-investigate-potential-violation-of-federal-law-barring-gift-solicitation\/\">raised<\/a> questions about the legality of the President\u2019s new cryptocurrency TRUMP meme coin.<\/p>\n<p>The meme coin, which was launched in mid-January, just before Trump assumed office, quickly escalated in value, securing its position as\u00a0the 41st-largest digital asset by\u00a0market cap.<\/p>\n<p>In a communication\u00a0to the DOJ and the\u00a0Office of Government Ethics, officials\u00a0from Public Citizen proposed that the meme coin might be in violation &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/02\/43579082\/think-tank-calls-for-doj-probe-into-trump-meme-coin-over-possible-anti-bribery-violations\" alt=\"Think\" tank calls for doj probe into trump meme coin over possible anti-bribery violations>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A progressive think tank has urged\u00a0the U.S. Department of Justice\u00a0(DOJ) to scrutinize the legality of the meme coin TRUMP (CRYPTO: TRUMP) launched by President Donald Trump. What Happened: The nonprofit consumer advocacy group,\u00a0Public Citizen, has raised questions about the legality of the President\u2019s new cryptocurrency TRUMP meme coin. The meme coin, which was launched in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-12082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}