{"id":85368,"date":"2026-04-24T04:31:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=85368"},"modified":"2026-04-24T04:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:31:33","slug":"bernie-sanders-blasts-trump-familys-unprecedented-kleptocracy-as-crypto-tops-list-of-deals-made-4-billion-off-the-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=85368","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Blasts Trump Family&#8217;s &#8216;Unprecedented Kleptocracy&#8217; As Crypto Tops List Of Deals: &#8216;Made $4 Billion Off The Presidency&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen. <strong>Bernie Sanders<\/strong> (I-VT) sharply criticized the Trump family\u2019s reported profiteering from cryptocurrency and other deals on Thursday.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sanders Spotlights Old Report On Trump Family\u2019s Deals<\/h2>\n<p>Sanders referenced a January <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/a-reporter-at-large\/trumps-profiteering-hits-four-billion-dollars?_sp=4fa9b0c0-11d4-4fe8-ad76-dda575946100.1776969967748\">article <\/a>by The New Yorker, estimating $4.05 billion in gains for the first family of the U.S. through cryptocurrency investments, Persian Gulf deals, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/25\/05\/45689301\/trumps-400-million-qatar-jet-deal-not-yet-official-despite-pentagon-taking-possession-doha-seeks-to-clarif\">Qatari jet deal<\/a> and other sources such as Mar-a-Lago events and <strong>Truth Social<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders denounced these deals as \u201cunprecedented kleptocracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House didn\u2019t immediately return Benzinga\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Trump family has made $4 billion off the presidency.   <\/p>\n<p>Crypto: $3.02B <br \/>Persian Gulf deals: $425.8M <br \/>Qatari jet: $150M<br \/>Legal fees\/merch: $127.7M <br \/>Mar-a-Lago: $125M<br \/>Corporate deals: $91M<br \/>Hanoi hotel: $40M<br \/>Truth Social: $25M<br \/>Don Jr: $19.6M  <\/p>\n<p>Unprecedented kleptocracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BernieSanders\/status\/2047408091289784372?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Crypto Effect?<\/h2>\n<p>The January article followed up on the August 2025 report, which pegged the Trump family\u2019s crypto profits at about $2.36 billion from ventures &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/04\/52021690\/bernie-sanders-blasts-trump-familys-unprecedented-kleptocracy-as-crypto-tops-list-of-deals-?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bernie\" sanders blasts trump family kleptocracy as crypto tops list of deals: billion off the presidency>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) sharply criticized the Trump family\u2019s reported profiteering from cryptocurrency and other deals on Thursday. Sanders Spotlights Old Report On Trump Family\u2019s Deals Sanders referenced a January article by The New Yorker, estimating $4.05 billion in gains for the first family of the U.S. through cryptocurrency investments, Persian Gulf deals, Qatari jet [&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-85368","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\/85368","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=85368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}