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Mapping Trump's Crypto Empire on Last Week Tonight
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A new interactive data map traces the Trump family’s extensive network of cryptocurrency ventures and quantifies the money flowing through them, and it was showcased on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. The project assembles hundreds of business entities, ownership links, regulatory filings and annotations into a searchable, filterable web; clicking any node reveals sourced explanatory panels, and an income overlay pulls figures from the president’s most recent financial disclosures to estimate revenues. The map is designed for journalists and researchers to query and reuse, exposing how crypto-related businesses are organized, who controls them, and how payments and partnerships channel funds into the Trump family’s orbit.
Substantively, the mapping documents a sprawling structure that has produced billions in income tied to the presidency and highlights specific mechanisms of control and conflict. One notable node is the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, labeled an intermediary entity established in 2014 that left Trump as sole beneficiary while placing his son in effective control - a setup OGE Director Walter Shaub called “meaningless from a conflict of interest perspective.” The project links individual firms, trustees, filings and media sources to show patterns of ownership, repeated intermediaries, and revenue flows, turning fragmentary disclosures into a coherent picture of how the Trump family monetizes political power through crypto ventures.
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