Trump’s Memecoin, Qatari Jet Raise Bipartisan Corruption Concerns

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The biggest owners of the Trump memecoin $Trump will dine with the president Thursday night at the Trump National Golf Club. The cryptocurrency directly enriches the Trump family and has alarmed public corruption experts on both sides of the aisle – as has the administration’s acceptance Wednesday of a luxury jet from Qatar. We take a closer look at Trump’s efforts to use his office for personal gain, the dangers it poses and how far voters are willing to let him go. Guests: David Yaffe-Bellany, reporter covering cryptocurrencies and fintech, New York Times Abdallah Fayyad, policy correspondent, Vox; His recent piece is "How corrupt is Trump’s plan to accept a Qatari plane?". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.9	Coming up on forum, according to New York Times reporter David Yoffie Bellany, President Trump's moves on cryptocurrency have, quote, eviscerated the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in a manner without precedent in modern American history. With a gala dinner for the top buyers of Trump's
1:11.8	mean coin tonight, and the administration's formal acceptance yesterday of a jet from
1:16.3	Qatar valued a $2 to $400 million, we look at the ways the president has made himself
1:21.7	vulnerable to corrupt influence, and what can act as a check against this? Join us.
1:33.3	Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. The biggest investors in the Trump meme coin will dine with the president
1:43.1	tonight at the Trump National Golf Club.
1:45.7	The cryptocurrency directly enriches the Trump family and has alarmed corruption experts and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle,
1:53.0	as has the administration's formal acceptance of a luxury jet from Qatar yesterday.
1:58.3	This hour, we take a closer look at these efforts by Trump to use his office for
2:01.9	personal gain and its broader impacts. Starting us off with the latest news on the plane is
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