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BumRushDaShow

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Fri Jan 24, 2025, 06:50 AM Friday

Massachusetts Democrats ask regulators to open Trump meme coins probe

Source: The Hill

01/23/25 7:58 PM ET


Two Massachusetts Democrats sent a letter to various regulators asking them to open an investigation into President Trump’s and first lady Melania Trump’s recently launched meme coins.

The letter, signed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.), was sent to the Office of Government Ethics, the Department of the Treasury, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

The letter asks the regulators how they plan to address the “unprecedented concerns” posed by the meme coins launched last week. “We write with deep concern about the decision by President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump to launch two meme coins, $TRUMP and $MELANIA, that allow them to earn extraordinary profits off his Presidency,” the lawmakers wrote.

During a press conference Tuesday, his first full day back in the White House, Trump was asked by a reporter if he intends to continue creating products that benefit himself, like the meme coin. The reporter informed the president that he made several billion dollars over the last few days because of the crypto coin. The president shrugged off the sum of money.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5104154-massachusetts-democrats-ask-regulators-to-open-trump-meme-coins-probe/



Link to Sen. Warren and Rep. Auchincloss LETTER (PDF) - https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/meme_coin_letter.pdf
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Massachusetts Democrats ask regulators to open Trump meme coins probe (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Friday OP
Nothing will happen just like his first term. Callie1979 Friday #1
chuckle chuckle, they will get the Merrick the Meek, answer, to political. republianmushroom Friday #2
He's going to salve his conscience by making good on all those previous bankruptcies dickthegrouch Friday #3

Callie1979

(490 posts)
1. Nothing will happen just like his first term.
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 06:57 AM
Friday

They wont be found illegal and foreigners will throw millions at them until he shuts it down and all his cultists lose THERI money.

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