MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | What Crypto Assets Are Trump Involved With?
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Insights with Jennifer Sanasie and CoinDesk Deputy Managing Editor of Tech and Protocols Sam Kessler.
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The Trump administration has demonstrated a friendlier stance towards digital assets but could the President's involvement in crypto projects be considered conflicts of interest? CoinDesk Deputy Managing Editor of Tech and Protocols Sam Kessler weighs in.
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| 0:52.8 | of things that Donald Trump, he likes calling himself a deal maker, |
| 0:56.0 | he wrote out of the deal. He's very transactional, and you see that in everything. So I say I'm not a |
| 1:00.8 | political reporter, but I certainly consume that news. And that's always been the case. And that's |
| 1:05.4 | certainly the case in the second administration. And I think the cryptocurrency industry, at least |
| 1:10.1 | in my view, is somebody who |
| 1:11.5 | watches it very closely, is the most plain, I guess, example of that transactional nature of |
| 1:19.4 | this president. |
| 1:26.2 | There have been a few instances on this show where guests have questioned if President Trump's involvement in crypto projects is a conflict of interest. |
| 1:33.7 | So I thought that it would be good to bring on CoinDisc Deputy Managing Editor of Techin Protocols Sam Kessler, |
| 1:40.0 | who's been following the launch of the president's meme coins, NFTs, and DFI project, |
| 1:45.0 | and also tracking the relationships that come along with these to give a little bit more context. |
| 1:50.7 | Sam Kessler, welcome to Markets Daily. |
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