{"id":89536,"date":"2026-05-04T16:46:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=89536"},"modified":"2026-05-04T16:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:46:49","slug":"trump-linked-wlfi-sues-justin-sun-as-token-jumps-20-in-3-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=89536","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Linked WLFI Sues Justin Sun As Token Jumps 20% In 3 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>World Liberty Financial <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/WLFI-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"WLFI\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: WLFI)<\/a><strong> <\/strong>sued <strong>Justin Sun<\/strong> for defamation Monday as WLFI surged more than 20% in three days.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Short-Selling Accusations<\/h3>\n<p>World Liberty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-04\/trump-linked-world-liberty-sues-justin-sun-for-defamation\">filed<\/a> the lawsuit in Florida state court, claiming Sun funded a deliberate short-selling campaign to suppress WLFI\u2019s price when the token launched in September.<\/p>\n<p>The company froze Sun\u2019s token position to prevent further harm, citing rights outlined in his unlock agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Sun began privately threatening litigation afterward, allegedly claiming his lawsuit would \u201clight World Liberty on fire\u201d and cause WLFI\u2019s price to \u201cgo to shit.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>World Liberty argues Sun then launched a coordinated media smear campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The company accused Sun of hiring social media influencers and deploying bot accounts to amplify accusations. Sun labeled company leaders, including several Trump family members, as \u201cbad actors\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/05\/52256979\/trump-linked-wlfi-sues-justin-sun-as-token-jumps-20-in-3-days?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Trump-Linked\" wlfi sues justin sun as token jumps in days>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Liberty Financial (CRYPTO: WLFI) sued Justin Sun for defamation Monday as WLFI surged more than 20% in three days. The Short-Selling Accusations World Liberty filed the lawsuit in Florida state court, claiming Sun funded a deliberate short-selling campaign to suppress WLFI\u2019s price when the token launched in September. The company froze Sun\u2019s token position [&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-89536","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\/89536","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=89536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}