Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Friday, January 9th.

Today on Forbes, how Trump's attack on Venezuela may have made him money.

The U.S. military incursion into Venezuela hasn't just bolstered Donald Trump's standing with

South Florida anti-communists, his tensions with other Latin American countries, or his willingness

to threaten Greenland and Colombia. It appears to have increased his personal wealth as well.

And no, it wasn't the oil on which Trump is so fixated that provided the jump. The oil markets

largely shrugged off the nighttime Caracas raid that captured Venezuelan

dictator Nicolas Maduro. For Trump, some newfound wealth has been coming out of another

class of assets that did well after last weekend, cryptocurrencies, especially ones tied to the

president. And he owns a lot of them. Since the Venezuela raid, as of Wednesday,

Forbes estimates that the value of his crypto-related holdings is up about $140 million in all.

The biggest boost looks to have come from his shares in Trump Media and Technology Group,

or TMTG, which jumped on Monday

morning trading and has stayed high. The president's nearly 115 million shares are worth about

$63 million more as of market close on Tuesday than they were before the Caracas

attack, a gain of about 4%. Why?

TMTG is an amalgamation of several businesses.

It owns the social media platform Truth Social, recently announced a merger with a fusion

energy company, and also has pursued a Bitcoin Treasury strategy and other crypto ventures.

Bitcoin, alongside the financial markets, has climbed in the last

few days on the news of Maduro's ouster, perhaps carrying TMTG along with it. Another possible

explanation is that when Trump enjoys prominent foreign policy wins, like Maduro's arrest,

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