{"id":67132,"date":"2026-01-09T21:46:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=67132"},"modified":"2026-01-09T21:46:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:46:43","slug":"trumps-pick-for-next-governor-of-florida-buys-bitcoin-is-congressional-committee-a-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=67132","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Pick For Next Governor Of Florida Buys Bitcoin: Is Congressional Committee A Conflict?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Members of Congress have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/politics\/25\/12\/49613154\/senator-bought-up-to-1-6-million-in-bitcoin-etf-shares-in-2025-heres-the-potential-conflict-of-interest\">been actively buying up<\/a> <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) and Bitcoin ETFs over the last 12 months. Many of the purchasers are allies of President <strong>Donald Trump <\/strong>and serve on financial committees, which could be a conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Congressman Buys Bitcoin<\/h2>\n<p>Congressman<strong> Byron Donalds<\/strong> (R-Fla.) recently disclosed buying $50,000 to $100,000 in Bitcoin, as reported by the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/government-trades\/members\/byron-donalds\"> Benzinga Government Trades page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/disclosures-clerk.house.gov\/public_disc\/ptr-pdfs\/2026\/20033747.pdf\">purchase <\/a>came alongside Donald disclosing the sale of shares of<strong> Abbott Laboratories<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"ABT\" data-exchange=\"NYSE\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ABT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(NYSE:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ABT\">ABT<\/a>) and the purchase of shares of <strong>Comfort Systems<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"FIX\" ...><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/26\/01\/49826299\/trumps-pick-for-next-governor-of-florida-buys-bitcoin-is-congressional-committee-a-conflict?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Trump's\" pick for next governor of florida buys bitcoin: is congressional committee a conflict>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Congress have been actively buying up Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Bitcoin ETFs over the last 12 months. Many of the purchasers are allies of President Donald Trump and serve on financial committees, which could be a conflict of interest. Congressman Buys Bitcoin Congressman Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) recently disclosed buying $50,000 to $100,000 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-67132","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\/67132","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=67132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}