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Eric Lipton

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Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

And so I think that you would see significant growth in the stable coin market in the United States and globally if Congress enacted it.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

It's a very odd situation because you have simultaneously a president of the United States who is both appointing the financial regulators. So effectively, he's the top financial regulator in the United States and therefore the world. And he is also one of the biggest players in the same regulatory space. So he is the regulator and the regulated. And it is a very unusual situation.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

It's a very odd situation because you have simultaneously a president of the United States who is both appointing the financial regulators. So effectively, he's the top financial regulator in the United States and therefore the world. And he is also one of the biggest players in the same regulatory space. So he is the regulator and the regulated. And it is a very unusual situation.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

It's a very odd situation because you have simultaneously a president of the United States who is both appointing the financial regulators. So effectively, he's the top financial regulator in the United States and therefore the world. And he is also one of the biggest players in the same regulatory space. So he is the regulator and the regulated. And it is a very unusual situation.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

I spoke with both historians and former White House ethics lawyers, and no one could identify another example of a conflict of interest that was so blatant and worrisome as having Trump be both the regulator and the regulated in this case.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

I spoke with both historians and former White House ethics lawyers, and no one could identify another example of a conflict of interest that was so blatant and worrisome as having Trump be both the regulator and the regulated in this case.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

I spoke with both historians and former White House ethics lawyers, and no one could identify another example of a conflict of interest that was so blatant and worrisome as having Trump be both the regulator and the regulated in this case.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

Yeah. I mean, this is a single piece of a much broader kind of landscapes of conflicts of interest when it comes to the Trump family and cryptocurrency.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

Yeah. I mean, this is a single piece of a much broader kind of landscapes of conflicts of interest when it comes to the Trump family and cryptocurrency.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

Yeah. I mean, this is a single piece of a much broader kind of landscapes of conflicts of interest when it comes to the Trump family and cryptocurrency.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

And among the other examples are the fact that Trump appointed an acting director of the SEC and now has appointed a permanent chair of the SEC, who among the first acts was to roll back most of the enforcement actions that the agency was taking relative to violations of federal securities law and banking secrecy requirements.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

And among the other examples are the fact that Trump appointed an acting director of the SEC and now has appointed a permanent chair of the SEC, who among the first acts was to roll back most of the enforcement actions that the agency was taking relative to violations of federal securities law and banking secrecy requirements.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

And among the other examples are the fact that Trump appointed an acting director of the SEC and now has appointed a permanent chair of the SEC, who among the first acts was to roll back most of the enforcement actions that the agency was taking relative to violations of federal securities law and banking secrecy requirements.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

And again, one of the first things that Trump did was to appoint an acting head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is the chief regulator of the cryptocurrency industry, who rolled back dozens of enforcement actions around the cryptocurrency industry, either froze those actions or actually stopped pending lawsuits against companies that had violated federal securities laws.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

And again, one of the first things that Trump did was to appoint an acting head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is the chief regulator of the cryptocurrency industry, who rolled back dozens of enforcement actions around the cryptocurrency industry, either froze those actions or actually stopped pending lawsuits against companies that had violated federal securities laws.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

And again, one of the first things that Trump did was to appoint an acting head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is the chief regulator of the cryptocurrency industry, who rolled back dozens of enforcement actions around the cryptocurrency industry, either froze those actions or actually stopped pending lawsuits against companies that had violated federal securities laws.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

And some of those same companies that have been freed of regulatory actions are actually business partners of World Liberty Financial. And not only that, but he actually pardoned a gentleman named Arthur Hayes, who is an investor in one of the financial partners of World Liberty.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

And some of those same companies that have been freed of regulatory actions are actually business partners of World Liberty Financial. And not only that, but he actually pardoned a gentleman named Arthur Hayes, who is an investor in one of the financial partners of World Liberty.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

And some of those same companies that have been freed of regulatory actions are actually business partners of World Liberty Financial. And not only that, but he actually pardoned a gentleman named Arthur Hayes, who is an investor in one of the financial partners of World Liberty.

Fresh Air
President Trump's Conflicts Of Interest

So, I mean, he has rolled back regulatory actions relative to his business partners and given a pardon to effectively one of his business partners.