Alarm bells over conflict of interest as filing shows Trump raked in $2bn in 2025 | First Thing
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President made more than $1bn from crypto businesses last year while federal government oversaw regulation. Plus, giant seal causes havoc in Tasmania – but locals love him Donald Trump has raked in more than $1bn from his crypto businesses since returning to the White House, according to financial disclosures, making him substantially richer and ringing alarm bells over a conflict of interest. According to a 927-page document released on Tuesday by the US Office of Government Ethics, Trump made more than $2.2bn in all last year, benefiting from a vast network of businesses and investments across the world, including in China. Anna Kelly, a White House spokesperson, denied there was any conflict of interest, saying any suggestion of that was “the same, tired, false narrative that Democrats and the legacy media have been pushing for a decade”. Where else is Trump getting money from? The US supreme court has upheld the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship , affirming that nearly all people born on US soil are American citizens and rejecting a central pillar of Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. The president had issued an executive order on the first day of his second term that sought to deny automatic citizenship to the individuals born to undocumented immigrants and temporary foreign residents. Born in Ethiopia in 1997 – the year DeGette arrived in Congress – Kiros graduated from law school at the University of Notre Dame in 2022. Transgender youth athletes have vowed to keep playing sports and fighting for equal access to teams after the US supreme court ruled in favor of laws banning their participation. Airlines and airports have called for the new EU biometric border check system to be suspended during the peak summer holiday period, saying some flights are leaving half full and passengers are struggling in queues of up to five hours.
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President made more than $1bn from crypto businesses last year while federal government oversaw regulation. Plus, giant seal causes havoc in Tasmania – but locals love him Good morning. Donald Trump has raked in more than $1bn from his crypto businesses since returning to the White House, according to financial disclosures, making him substantially richer and ringing alarm bells over a conflict of interest. According to a 927-page document released on Tuesday by the US Office of Government Ethics, in all, Trump made more than $2.2bn last year, benefitting from a vast network of businesses and investments across the world including in China. Where else is Trump getting money from? The US president made millions last year from selling Trump-branded Bibles, sneakers and other small items in another unprecedented move for the presidency. In the Trump-branded watches category alone, the president earned $4.7m. Trump also racked up tens of millions from fees and licensing deals in a flurry o
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