{"id":70559,"date":"2026-02-03T13:01:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=70559"},"modified":"2026-02-03T13:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:01:31","slug":"trump-didnt-know-about-500m-abu-dhabi-bet-on-wlfi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=70559","title":{"rendered":"Trump: \u2018Didn\u2019t Know\u2019 About $500M Abu Dhabi Bet On WLFI"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US President Donald Trump said he was unaware of the $500 million investment by an Abu Dhabi royal into World Liberty Financial, pushing responsibility to his sons as questions mount over foreign money, crypto rails, and US policy decisions.<\/p>\n

Asked at the White House on Feb. 2 about a The Wall Street Journal report that the Abu Dhabi royal family invested \u201chundreds of millions of dollars\u201d into the Trump-linked venture, Trump flatly denied knowledge and framed the operation as a family-run side project.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I don\u2019t know about it. I know that crypto is a big thing and they like it. A lot of people like it,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThe people behind me like it. My sons are handling that. My family is handling it. And I guess they get investments from different people. But I\u2019m not.\u201d He then pivoted to geopolitics: \u201cI have all I can handle right now with Iran and with Russia and Ukraine and with all the things we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump says he knows nothing about the $500M Abu Dhabi investment in his family\u2019s WLFI crypto project.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know about it\u2026 my family is handling it.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/sBEfXO1FCK<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 TFTC (@TFTC21) February 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Why The Trump Deal Raises Questions<\/h2>\n

The denial lands amid a fast-building paper trail around World Liberty Financial\u2019s cap table and its ties to Gulf-linked capital. According to the report, a firm associated with Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, an Abu Dhabi royal tied to the emirate\u2019s state investment machinery, acquired roughly 49% of World Liberty Financial in a deal valued at about $500 million, with documents reviewed by the Journal indicating the agreement was struck just days before Trump took office.<\/p>\n

The report<\/a> also describes why the timing is politically combustible: months after the reported stake purchase, the Trump administration moved ahead with supplying the United Arab Emirates with advanced US-made AI chips despite prior concerns about diversion risks to China, intensifying the perception that business and statecraft are entangled.<\/p>\n

World Liberty Financial, for its part, has rejected the suggestion that any government action was influenced by the investment. A spokesperson said that neither Trump nor Steve Witkoff<\/a> was involved in the transaction and called claims tying it to the chips decision \u201c100% false,\u201d while White House counsel said the president has no involvement in business deals that would implicate his constitutional responsibilities.<\/p>\n

The controversy has a second, crypto-native layer: the same Abu Dhabi orbit has already shown it is willing to use World Liberty-linked instruments as settlement rails. Abu Dhabi-backed MGX used World Liberty\u2019s dollar-pegged stablecoin (USD1) to settle a $2 billion investment<\/a> into Binance, a deal publicly discussed by World Liberty co-founder Zach Witkoff at TOKEN2049 in Dubai.<\/p>\n

That combination has given critics an easy narrative hook: foreign state-linked capital gaining proximity to a US president\u2019s family business while policy decisions affecting the same country move through Washington.<\/p>\n

At press time, WLFI traded at $0.13.<\/p>\n

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