Clarity Act Stalls as Trump Crypto Ethics Probe Deepens
Seven Senate Democrats just signaled they want to keep bipartisan Clarity Act talks alive, but the 60-vote path now runs through presidential conflict-of-interest reform, not partisan math.
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Seven Senate Democrats just signaled they want to keep bipartisan Clarity Act talks alive, but the 60-vote path now runs through presidential conflict-of-interest reform, not partisan math.
A 49% Gulf sovereign block in a sitting US president's crypto venture invites CFIUS, ethics, and conflict-of-interest reviews the sector rarely sees, with opacity around the bank-holding structure…
The poll ties Trump's crypto push to voter pain on affordability, framing it as personal enrichment rather than policy, which keeps the political-risk spotlight on presidential crypto ties.
The proposed bureau would have subpoena power and a Senate-confirmed director; the $620M Trump family crypto take gives Democrats a concrete peg to hang it on.
The stablecoin-rewards fight is now a proxy war for who controls the market's biggest US policy win, and Trump's own DeFi project is making the Democratic votes the bill needs politically toxic.
The president agreed to what Sen. Moreno called the most aggressive ethics language in US history, but Trump family crypto income above $1.4B is exactly why Democratic votes are still not in the bag.
Months of bipartisan work on presidential digital-asset conflict-of-interest rules now hinge on a single closed-door meeting, and the clock on market-structure legislation is the real casualty.
Three Senate Democrats hardened their opposition on Tuesday, putting the ethics provision on senior officials at the center of whether any market-structure bill can reach 60 votes.
Democrats now want the bill to ban presidents from sponsoring or profiting from digital assets, a demand Trump can't sign without effectively cutting himself off from a sector he dominates.
The proposed Perpetuals.com deal would unwind most of the operating business that bought $750M of WLFI tokens earlier this year, after shares collapsed 90% and the family's token exposure fueled a…
The headline number is the income, but the absence of a divestiture or blind trust is the part ethics lawyers will read; crypto is now the President's largest disclosed revenue stream.
The president's $635M memecoin royalty plus $500M+ from World Liberty Financial lands as Bitcoin sits 50% off its high, sharpening the conflict-of-interest read on his pro-crypto policy push.
The headline figure combines equity sales tied to the Trump-linked DeFi venture with token-sale proceeds, putting the President’s crypto exposure on par with stakes in legacy household-name public…
The Democratic critique is now in the congressional record, but no bill is on the table and the political math in the Senate has not changed.
Five senators want sworn testimony on whether a half-billion-dollar World Liberty Financial investment from an Abu Dhabi royal's lieutenants bought favorable U.S.
The ask is procedural, but the political weight lands on the institutional crypto world's read of US policy: any hearing forces public disclosure of World Liberty Financial's foreign-investor stack…
Selig called Trump the 'crypto president' and framed the roadmap as a first-of-its-kind federal effort — building on the first-term futures launch and a coordinated pro-crypto policy push.
AI Financial, the treasury firm associated with World Liberty Financial (WLFI) — the crypto project backed by the Trump…