President Donald Trump sent the best investors in the cryptocurrency operations of his family Thursday evening from a podium sporting the presidential seal in apparent violation of the federal law.
The important appearance of the seal while Trump presented his $ Trump meme piece during an exclusive dinner in one of his golf courses, he pointed out that the federal government was somehow linked to the private company.
Under federal law, the presidential seal cannot be used in such a way which could “transmit a false impression of sponsorship or approval” by the government. Breaking the law is liable to six months in prison.
The president organized the Big Bucks dinner – which has attracted the derision of its dark entrances – at the Trump National Golf Club in Virginia to reward the 220 main investors of his meme piece. He flew to the event in the Marine One helicopter, which also revealed that dinner was an official presidential opportunity.
Trump has openly connected cryptocurrency plans officially managed by the sons Eric and Donald Trump JR which would now be an important source of the president’s wealth.
Investors invited dinner – who participated in a kind of spending lotto because they had to compete to be the biggest payers – spent a total of $ 394 million for the $ Trump cryptocurrency for access to the president, according to NBC News, citing the Nansen Blockchain Analysis Society.
However, high sky prices were not guaranteed a good meal. “The only good thing was bread and butter,” said the personality of Tiktok Nick Pinto Cable.
A significant part of investors came from countries outside the United States, alarming criticisms that fear that investments can mainly serve as bribes for Trump favors who are not in the best interest of the United States
The white house press secretary Karoline Leavitt rejected the indignation of ethics by criticisms who complain that Trump capitalizes on his public role for personal purposes by saying that the president used “personal time” to present his private commercial interests.
“The president attends it in his personal time; it is not a dinner of the White House,” she told journalists.
The Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon joined a hundred demonstrators outside the event, calling the dinner the “Mount Everest of Corruption”, according to video clips on X. Other demonstrators have gone to read the “Grift Gala” panels, “American is not for sale” and “Stop crypto corruption”.
“This is one of the most flagrant and appalling cases to sell access to the presidency I have ever seen,” said Donald Sherman, Executive Director and Chief Lawyer Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
