{"id":23974,"date":"2026-07-16T22:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/trump-made-1-4bn-from-crypto-in-one-year-is-justin-sun-the-man-who-helped-him-do-it\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T22:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:37:27","slug":"trump-made-1-4bn-from-crypto-in-one-year-is-justin-sun-the-man-who-helped-him-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/trump-made-1-4bn-from-crypto-in-one-year-is-justin-sun-the-man-who-helped-him-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump made $1.4bn from crypto in one year. Is Justin Sun the man who helped him do it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The entrepreneur is known in Washington as the financial power behind the president\u2019s crypto fortune. How did Sun\u2019s business love-in with the Trump family spiral into dueling lawsuits?<\/p>\n

The most infamous financial scandal in US presidential history \u2013 the 1920s Teapot Dome affair \u2013 involved then president Warren G Harding\u2019s interior secretary, Albert Fall, taking roughly $400,000 in bribes. Adjusted for inflation, that\u2019s about $6m today. Last year, Donald Trump made at least $2.2bn<\/a>; his single year of income is on the order of 200 to 300 times larger than the bribe that defined \u201cpresidential corruption\u201d in the American imagination for a century.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s taken for granted that Trump flogs items like Bibles and gold sneakers as a way to wring more money from his loyal base. But of the president\u2019s $2.2bn, at least $1.4bn came from his crypto businesses. That\u2019s an extraordinary achievement, even for an unscrupulous sitting president. How exactly did he do it without any prior background in crypto?<\/p>\n

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\nThe entrepreneur is known in Washington as the financial power behind the president\u2019s crypto fortune. How did Sun\u2019s business love-in with the Trump family spiral into dueling lawsuits?
\nThe most infamous financial scandal in US presidential history \u2013 the 1920s Teapot Dome affair \u2013 involved then president Warren G Harding\u2019s interior secretary, Albert Fall, taking roughly $400,000 in bribes. Adjusted for inflation, that\u2019s about $6m today. Last year, Donald Trump made at least $2.2bn; his single year of income is on the order of 200 to 300 times larger than the bribe that defined \u201cpresidential corruption\u201d in the American imagination for a century.
\nIt\u2019s taken for granted that Trump flogs items like Bibles and gold sneakers as a way to wring more money from his loyal base. But of the president\u2019s $2.2bn, at least $1.4bn came from his crypto businesses. That\u2019s an extraordinary achievement, even for an unscrupulous sitting president. How exactly did he do it without any prior background in crypto? Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The entrepreneur is known in Washington as the financial power behind the president\u2019s crypto fortune. How did Sun\u2019s business love-in with the Trump family spiral into dueling lawsuits? The most infamous financial scandal in US presidential history \u2013 the 1920s Teapot Dome affair \u2013 involved then president Warren G Harding\u2019s interior secretary, Albert Fall, taking …<\/p>\n

Trump made $1.4bn from crypto in one year. Is Justin Sun the man who helped him do it?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23974"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}