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This is hours too old for LBN, or I'd post it there.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-coins-freight-influence_n_68153967e4b03d516aad99d3
Freight Technologies Inc. CEO Javier Selgas said in a Wednesday news release that buying Trump coin would be “an effective way to advocate for fair, balanced and free trade between Mexico and the U.S.”
The release was attached to a filing that same day with the Securities and Exchange Commission explaining why Freight Technologies was issuing bonds. “The company will use the net proceeds from the offering to purchase TRUMP coins,” the company told the SEC.
“It’s just another day for Donald Trump that an international freight company is paying a $20 million tribute towards the Trump family fortune after openly wishing it will lead to administration tariff relief,” said Tony Carrk, executive director of Accountable.us. The watchdog group discovered Freight Technologies’ plan through a social media post bragging about it by GetTrumpMemes.com, the company that sells the Trump coins.
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Found thanks to a Bluesky post from George Conway minutes ago:
@gtconway.bsky.social
Nothing important here. Just a publicly-traded company disclosing to investors that it’s attempting to bribe the President of the United States by buying his cryptocurrency in order to influence his trade policy.

Nevilledog
(54,385 posts)Most corrupt president in history.
Blues Heron
(7,043 posts)Initech
(104,990 posts)The only reason this bullshit administration got into power was because the media took a giant dump on Biden for the economy. Because this tariff bullshit is so much better isn't it?
Irish_Dem
(70,197 posts)AZJonnie
(829 posts)This story is really only meaningful if the company have some evidence that this $20M was actively solicited by someone working for/with the regime. And Lordy, I hope there are tapes! Without that, this story only evidences that the company themselves have corrupt intent (and it might've even been illegal for them to state this intention, esp. in an SEC filing), it doesn't prove IQ47 is doing anything wrong.