Donald Trump went right from a second apparent assassination attempt on Sunday to a live Twitter Space on Monday where he presented his latest grift, a crypto scam called World Liberty Financial which will be run by his two main adult sons Don Jr and Eric.
Trump has called Bitcoin a “scam” and “a disaster waiting to happen” as recently as 2021 but has warmed to the cryptocurrency industry and has bought at least $1m in crypto.
Last month, Trump declared that he wants to make the USA “the crypto capital of the planet.”
But he's also demonstrated that he has no idea how crypto works, not that he's ever let a lack of knowledge stop him from selling anything.
“Crypto is one of those things we have to do,” Trump said during the Twitter livestream. “Whether we like it or not, I have to do it.”
Eric, Don Jr, and others involved in World Liberty Financial claim that it will be a "blockchain-based banking, lending, and money transfer platform designed to make cryptocurrency more accessible and easy to use" while bypassing "censorship" and political control.
Trump's main partner is Chase Herro, the self-avowed “dirtbag of the internet" who's been involved in several get-rich-quick internet scams.
On MSNBC's The 11th Hour, host Stephanie Ruhle slammed both Trump and Herro as she sat down with Zeke Faux, author and investigative reporter for Bloomberg, on Monday night’s broadcast.
“He was a weed dealer. He went to prison. He started getting into online marketing. One thing I found he was selling was colon cleanses,” Faux alleged of Herro.
“So he’s not full of s***. Oh!” Ruhle quipped before holding her hand up to the camera and apologizing. “Sorry, sorry. I shouldn’t have said that. Excuse me. Apologies.”