Is Abu Dhabi Bribing the Trump Family?
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The Bulwark
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🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Bloomberg: US Weighs Easing Nvidia Chip Curbs on UAE as Trump Plans Visit
The New York Times: At a Dubai Conference, Trump’s Conflicts Take Center Stage
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| 0:20.0 | Hey, guys, it's Tim Miller from the bulwark. The Trump crypto corruption is now off the charts. |
| 0:26.7 | It is unimaginable in the history of American politics. What is happening with Trump's |
| 0:33.2 | crypto coin is something in history that would be only akin to what would happen in Tin Poc |
| 0:39.1 | dictatorships. |
| 0:40.0 | Like we have a Gaddafi level scheme happening right now in this country under our nose. |
| 0:47.3 | I want to point you to this most recent story from the UAE, which is well reported by the New York |
| 0:54.0 | Times. You got to give credit to the |
| 0:55.4 | mainstream media. There is some value to these huge legacy organizations that the Times has |
| 1:01.7 | this David Yefee, Bellany reporting from Dubai, the UAE. So I'm going to have the resources for |
| 1:06.3 | quite yet. Subscribe to the board. So shout out to David. Here is his report. Sitting in front |
| 1:13.0 | of a packed auditorium in Dubai, a founder of the Trump family cryptocurrency business made |
| 1:17.5 | a brief but monumental announcement. A fund backed by Abu Dhabi would be making a $2 billion |
| 1:23.9 | business deal using the Trump firm's digital coins. That transaction will be a major |
| 1:31.0 | contribution by a foreign government to President Trump's private venture, one that stands to |
| 1:35.9 | generate hundreds of millions of dollars for the Trump family. That man that was on stage, |
| 1:42.4 | Zach Whitkoff, son of Steve Whitkoff. |
| 1:45.7 | So our chief negotiator in the Russia-Ukraine war, if you want to call it that, |
| 1:51.0 | I mean, maybe the chief advocate for Russia at the negotiation table in the Russia-Ukraine |
| 1:55.7 | war, Steve Whitkoff. |
| 1:57.7 | His son is a business partner with the president that appointed him and that family business, |
| 2:06.0 | the Whitcomst and the Trumps, managed to shake down the UAE for two, like for hundreds of |
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