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Trump’s Crypto Bribe Dinner: Tim Miller Exposes It All

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Tim Miller joins Nicolle Wallace and Michele Norris to unpack Donald Trump’s shocking crypto fundraising scandal—accusing the former president of hosting a bribe-filled dinner with foreign investors, including a Chinese national once under DOJ investigation. They also explore Trump’s diplomatic humiliation of allies like South Africa and Ukraine and the broader legal and ethical chaos defining his 2024 campaign.

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0:00.0

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0:22.1

Wallace and Michelle Norris over on MSNBC and I was going off on this dinner that happened

0:27.9

tonight where Donald Trump brought the biggest investors, the biggest contributors, the biggest

0:34.9

bribers into his shit coin to a personal dinner with him.

0:40.3

Among the investors included Justin Sun, the guy I've been talking about a lot on here, this

0:43.8

Chinese crypto magnate who was under investigation by the DOJ under the Biden administration.

0:51.9

Those investigations have been wiped clean under the Trump administration.

0:55.8

He put in 50 million, at least into Trump's coins.

1:00.2

He will be there.

1:01.6

A bunch of other folks.

1:03.4

This is an unprecedented scandal.

1:05.9

The corruption is insane.

1:09.3

Earlier today in the press conference, Carolyn Levitt said that Trump was doing this dinner

1:13.3

on his personal time. There is no personal time when he's the president. You don't have personal

1:18.6

time. You're always the president. The people at the dinner know you're the president.

1:22.5

It's not like, you know, they get men and black on the way out. It's just you get to have a fun hang

1:26.6

with cigars.

1:32.2

And then he goes back to being the president. They know people that have invested in the coin have said that they're doing it to influence this White House. Trump is getting rich off this.

1:36.6

It is unacceptable. It is unprecedented. And I saw a congressman say that Trump is coin operated. Yeah, he's Bitcoin operated.

1:48.9

His, he's cryptocurrency operated. Crypto coin operated. We'll play with that a little bit. Um, this is a

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