{"id":24384,"date":"2025-04-29T17:32:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=24384"},"modified":"2025-04-29T17:32:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:32:01","slug":"trump-affiliated-world-liberty-financial-defies-ethics-concerns-raises-550-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=24384","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Affiliated World Liberty Financial Defies Ethics Concerns, Raises $550 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/03\/44569369\/trump-family-tightens-grip-on-defi-platform-world-liberty-financial\"><strong>World Liberty Financial<\/strong><\/a> (WLFI), a cryptocurrency venture run by the Trump family, secured over $550 million from investors worldwide, but concerns about conflicts between presidential power and private business interests remain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>WLFI is 60% owned by a Trump family entity and has aggressively courted investors with deals that multiple industry executives described as ethically questionable, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/29\/us\/politics\/trump-crypto-world-liberty-financial.html\">investigation<\/a> published on Tuesday by The New York Times. <\/p>\n<p>The company approached at least five crypto startups offering \u201cpartnerships\u201d that required them to purchase between $10 million and $30 million of World Liberty\u2019s coins in exchange for smaller investments from Trump\u2019s firm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a black spot on our industry,\u201d said <strong>Andre Cronje<\/strong>, founder of SonicLabs, which rejected World Liberty\u2019s pitch. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone accepting such deals would \u201cobviously think they\u2019re going to make money because it\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/legal\/25\/04\/45077156\/trump-affiliated-world-liberty-financial-defies-ethics-concerns-raises-550-million\" alt=\"Trump-Affiliated\" world liberty financial defies ethics concerns raises million>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a cryptocurrency venture run by the Trump family, secured over $550 million from investors worldwide, but concerns about conflicts between presidential power and private business interests remain. What Happened: WLFI is 60% owned by a Trump family entity and has aggressively courted investors with deals that multiple industry executives described as [&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-24384","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\/24384","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=24384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}