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This week JD Vance and two of Trump’s sons spoke at a Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas, following Trump’s own crypto dinner last week when he wined and dined foreign nationals who lined his pockets by buying his grift meme coin. This comes as Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social, struck a deal to buy $2.5 billion in Bitcoin, increasing Trump’s hold on his cryptocurrency empire. Trump also announced a crypto token that allows people to “transfer money directly to the president’s family,” raising widespread concern among legal ethics experts. This is all absolutely repugnant. Trump and his acolytes are using the power of the presidency to enrich themselves, all while hardworking families drown in bills and struggle to put food on the table. Trump, in fact, may have doubled his estimated net worth in the last year alone. This is corruption. It’s self dealing. It’s crooked. It’s wrong.