From $TRUMP to WLFI and American Bitcoin Corp, Trump-branded crypto ventures are now in a steep crash, wiping out a significant chunk of the family’s newly made wealth.
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De $TRUMP à WLFI en passant par American Bitcoin Corp, les entreprises de crypto-monnaie portant le nom de Trump sont aujourd’hui en pleine chute, réduisant à néant une grande partie de la nouvelle fortune de la famille.
Trump a considéré un message comme une attaque directe contre son autorité, qualifiant les législateurs de « traîtres » ayant un « comportement séditieux » et utilisant son fil social pour exiger leur arrestation et laisser entendre que leurs actes devraient être « passibles de mort ».
Dick Cheney, longtemps considéré comme l’un des vice-présidents républicains les plus polarisants, a commencé par soutenir Trump en 2016, mais a fini par rompre avec lui après le 6 janvier et le refus de Trump d’accepter les résultats de l’élection de 2020.
Trump a déclaré que « des choses arrivent » parfois, comme le sort du journaliste « extrêmement controversé » selon lui, minimisant les conclusions de la CIA.
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been jailed to serve a 27-year sentence over his role in an alleged coup attempt, after being taken into custody when Brazilian authorities accused him of planning to use a demonstration outside his home as cover to escape.
According to court documents, Bolsonaro was also suspected of trying to tamper with his electronic ankle monitor in the lead-up to his arrest.
«The admitted breach of electronic monitoring not only increases the risk of escape but also indicates a blatant violation of the precautionary measures»
His electronic ankle monitor
Brazil Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who has overseen the coup case, has ruled that Jair Bolsonaro will remain in custody for the duration of his 27-year sentence, after ordering his pre-emptive arrest on Saturday.
The far-right former president had been under house arrest since August and was taken into custody after authorities said he tried to break or tamper with his electronic ankle monitor, leading the court to treat him as a serious flight risk.
Bolsonaro has blamed the violation of his monitoring device on «hallucinations» linked to a change in his medication, but that explanation was brushed aside in the arrest order and in subsequent votes by fellow justices.
In a written opinion backing Bolsonaro’s continued detention, Justice Flávio Dino wrote that «The admitted breach of electronic monitoring not only increases the risk of escape but also indicates a blatant violation of the precautionary measures», underscoring the court’s view that Bolsonaro knowingly defied judicial restrictions.
Let us recall that on January 8, 2023, thousands of Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters, refusing to accept his defeat in the 2022 election, stormed the three main seats of federal power on Brasília’s Praça dos Três Poderes — the National Congress, the Planalto presidential palace and the Supreme Court — vandalizing the buildings, clashing with security forces and calling for a military intervention to overturn the election results and prevent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from governing.
Trump fellow right-wing leader
Jair Bolsonaro, often described as a close ally and ideological twin of Donald Trump, has long been embraced by Trump as a fellow right-wing leader, with the two men aligned on nationalism, conservative social policies and attacks on traditional institutions and the media.
As Bolsonaro faced investigation and trial in Brazil for allegedly plotting a coup to overturn the 2022 election, Trump repeatedly rushed to his defense, calling the Brazilian proceedings a case of political persecution.
On Truth Social, Trump denounced Bolsonaro’s indictment as a «terrible thing» and demanded that authorities «LEAVE BOLSONARO ALONE», framing the charges as part of a broader campaign against conservative leaders.
A federal appeals court has refused Donald Trump’s attempt to restore his RICO case against Hillary Clinton and has upheld a penalty of nearly $1 million against President Donald Trump and his attorney Alina Habba, finding that they engaged in «sanctionable conduct» by filing a frivolous lawsuit targeting Clinton and former FBI Director James Comey.
In its opinion, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge William Pryor Jr. added that Trump and Habba’s accusations «were indeed frivolous», echoing the assessment of the previous judge who handled the case.
His 2016 presidential campaign
Trump’s bid sought to reinstate the 2022 lawsuit targeting Clinton, Comey and others over allegations about ties between his 2016 presidential campaign and Russia.
For years, Trump has claimed that Clinton orchestrated a broad conspiracy to fabricate false accusations against his 2016 campaign and to trigger investigations such as special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, but he failed to convince the court with the lawsuit he filed in 2022.
Confusing and poorly structured
But the three-judge appeals panel composed of Chief Judge William Pryor Jr., a George W. Bush appointee, Trump appointee Andrew Brasher and Biden appointee Embry Kidd concluded unanimously that the district court judge who originally ruled against Trump had properly taken into account his «pattern of misusing the courts» when deciding to sanction him. The panel also found that the same standard justified sanctions against his attorney, Alina Habba and leaving in place a penalty of nearly $1 million against them.
In 2022, Trump filed a lawsuit claiming that Hillary Rodham Clinton, James Comey and others conspired to invent allegations of collusion with Russia during the 2016 campaign, which he argued damaged his reputation and business interests. In 2023, U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks, a Bill Clinton appointee, dismissed the case, describing the 193-page complaint as a «shotgun pleading» that was confusing and poorly structured.
Middlebrooks found that the lawsuit failed to identify any coordinated enterprise, did not allege valid criminal acts, did not show concrete financial damages and was filed outside the statute of limitations, concluding that it served a political rather than a legal purpose and writing: «This case should never have been brought. Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the start. No reasonable lawyer would have filed it».
Donald Trump can still seek a rehearing by the full appeals court or ask the Supreme Court to take up the case, and he or the White House could yet comment publicly on the appeals panel’s decision.
New information revealed by Bloomberg and reported by multiple media outlets offers telling details about how the president and his administration have handled the Epstein files since his return to power.
According to these reports, including coverage by Raw Story, we learn that the Trump administration spent 850,000 dollars in FBI overtime to pay agents to comb through Jeffrey Epstein’s records.
An intensive review
This decision raises new questions about the real reasons behind such an intensive review, especially after months in which Trump was dogged by the shadow of the Epstein files he largely refused to release, until an almost unanimous, bipartisan vote in the House and a unanimous vote in the Senate finally forced their disclosure.
Investigative reporter Jason Leopold of Bloomberg News obtained a behind-the-scenes look at how the FBI handled the review and redaction of the Epstein files under the Trump administration. Following his Freedom of Information Act request to the bureau, Leopold received internal records that shed light on the internal discussions around what would be blacked out, how fast the review needed to move, and how closely the process was being overseen.
The documents Leopold obtained shed light on how roughly 1,000 FBI special agents were deployed in March, under FBI Director Kash Patel, to support the bureau’s FOIA team at the FBI’s Central Records Complex in Winchester, Virginia. Inside the bureau, this surge of agents was folded into a dedicated effort called the «Special Redaction Project», focused on reviewing and redacting the Epstein files ahead of their public release.
According to these documents, the agents were assigned to work side by side with the FOIA staff to review and redact the Epstein files, including the names of victims and other sensitive personal information, as part of the Special Redaction Project.
According to Bloomberg, FBI personnel assigned to the Special Redaction Project received specific training on redaction protocols, including instructional videos and PowerPoint presentations designed to guide them through the process.
What would ultimately be revealed
Among the information revealed by Jason Leopold, based on records he obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, are internal emails showing that agents reviewed a wide range of materials, including search warrant execution photos, street surveillance video and aerial footage from FBI search warrant execution.
In an email on March 10, FBI personnel from the Office of General Counsel and the bureau’s Information Management Division discussed pending FOIA requests for Epstein-related records, the digitizing and redacting of physical files and the bureau’s commitment to transparency in handling the Epstein documents.
Leopold’s reporting also shows that the FBI paid personnel from various divisions, including counterintelligence and international operations, 851,344 dollars in overtime for working on the Epstein files between March 17 and March 22.
FBI personnel clocked in a total of 4,737 hours of overtime between January and July, and more than 70% of that overtime was logged during the month of March while personnel reviewed the Epstein files.
All of this has made the Special Redaction Project both logistically heavy and highly sensitive, given the intense political stakes over what would ultimately be revealed and what would remain blacked out – including, for Trump’s critics and supporters alike, the question of whether his name will appear in the Epstein files at all after the extensive review overseen by Kash Patel’s FBI.