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There's always an instinct to mock Donald Trump when he's selling the bootleg guitars or the Trump watches for $100,000 or the weird gold Trump sneakers or the Trump NFTs or the Liberty Financial Trump bitcoins. But there's a deeper issue here that needs to be analyzed. Is Donald Trump is opening up all of these avenues to be bribed by corporate interests who want to influence his policy by making payments to him and do end run around regulations and laws. I want to talk about that. I want to share with you this Wall Street Journal article called Corporate America Launches Unorthodox Campaign to gain Trump's Attention. I want to show you how corporate media is trying to normalize behavior that just appears to be bribery. Then I want to give a specific instance of an individual who's been investigation by the securities and Exchange Commission who recently gave $30 million to basically support Donald Trump's bitcoin, which was failing before this infusion of capital. And then I want to talk about Donald Trump appointing Charles Kushner, Jared Kushner's daddy, to become the ambassador to France. I want to call all of this out and then my final message to anybody here is how is this helpful to most Americans? How is this helpful to 99% of Americans? It seems that all this is doing is just funneling to Donald Trump. Let's go through it right now. So here's the article by the Wall Street Journal. It's called Corporate America Launches an Orthodox Campaign to Gain Trump's Attention. Companies look at scrubbing left leaning policies from their websites and scoping out appearances on conservative podcasts. It says Corporate America is unleashing an unorthodox campaign to influence Donald Trump's agenda and the weeks leading up to his Second inauguration, a period that is emerging as a key stretch for shaping the next administration. What do you mean emerging as a key stretch for shaping? It's the transition. It's always the key moment or the key stretch for shaping administration. That's why it's called a transition. And they call it an unorthodox campaign here. What do you mean bribery? Let's go on and read it. To break into the unusual circle of influence that surrounds Trump. Pause there. Unusual circle of influence. What do you mean? Trump's family members and people who are inexperienced and unqualified, whereas normal, normally the transition is handled in an ethical and very diligent matter. It's not. But I guess that's all very unorthodox for you. Goes on to say chief executives, corporate leaders are discussing whether to try to secure an appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast. They are buying the Trump's family cryptocurrency token and emailing tips about spending cuts to Vivek Ramaswamy. Wait a minute. They're buying Trump's family cryptocurrency token? That sounds like a conflict of interest. That sounds like it has many legal ramifications. We'll get to that in just a moment. It goes on to say some lobbyists are instructing companies to scrub their websites and corporate policies of language that favors Democrats and instead tout GOP friendly issues such as job creation. You notice how the Wall Street Journal is doing this propaganda here? They're like, the GOP friendly issue is job creation. What corporation is not trying to do job creation and build their company and grow? I never realized that job creation was an anti Democratic issue. But that's how it's framed here by the Wall Street Journal. Then it says that corporations are removing policies that favor Democrats. I mean, like what? That you shouldn't discriminate against people on the basis of gender, ethnicity, race or religion. I think that's what they mean. Goes on to say, quote, my inbox and text message box looks like the Niagara Falls said Ramaswamy, who is co running a new department to make the government efficient. They're talking about Doge right there. And notice how they normalize it as well. A new. Really? Because when I last checked, new departments have to be made by laws. Like they don't just sprout up, but they're like, here's a new department to promote government efficiency being led by an unelected bureaucrat. And they just normalize that language as though this thing is like a normal department. It's not actually a department. You should state that in your article. It goes on to say now this paragraph right here basically just describes bribery. Listen to it. Those who can garner sway with Trump or his team could ask for exemption to forthcoming tariffs and influence staffing. They could recommend officials who are friendly with the pharmaceutical industry, for example to counterbalance vaccine skeptic RFK Jr. As top health agency nominee, at least one pharmaceutical company is in final negotiations to hire a Republican lobbying firm to help advise it about Kennedy and how best to navigate the second Trump administration. 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And then what were the ways it could do that. You refer to the previous paragraph where it says to break into the unusual circle of influence that surrounds Trump, chief executives are buying the Trump's family cryptocurrency token. So if you buy Trump's family cryptocurrency, you could ask for exemptions to forthcoming tariffs and influence staffing. Okay, Basically, the Wall Street Journal is describing bribery right there. But they don't call it out. They normalize. This is unusual. This is unorthodo. This is just a little bit different. Right here. Goes on to say one lobbyist has recently counseled clients that they need to get rid of corporate policies adopting during the Biden administration that favor one party over another, such as bans on corporate PAC donations to lawmakers who didn't vote to certify the 2020 election. Oh, so now they got to go full election denial mode. It goes on to say another strategist said he recently instructed a clean energy company to strip a section on environmental, social and corporate governance policies from its website and instead focus on the issue of job creation. So I guess if you talk about the environment now or you talk about corporate governance issues, that's not what you gotta do. You gotta buy the cryptocurrency of Donald Trump. It goes on to say cryptocurrency executive Justin sun said on Monday he is now the largest investor in World Liberty Financial, a crypto project backed by Trump and his family, by buying $30 million in the project. Wait a minute. A guy named Justin sun just bought $30 million in Trump's cryptocurrency? Who is this guy? I mean, is he. He can't possibly be someone who's under SEC investigation. Is he? Oh, wait a minute. He is. Here's the Bloomberg article. Trump's crypto project was a bust until Justin sun stepped in. His $30 million investment gives the struggling venture a boost. Son, who also paid $6 million for banana art, faces an SEC suit, which he denies. I know all the factory workers who voted for Donald Trump, all those hardworking Americans who voted for Trump. They are just like Justin Sun. Buying $6 million banana art. Right. Goes on to say Donald Trump's crypto project, World Liberty Financial, it was looking like a bust. Like all of Donald Trump's projects, the President Elect and his sons had been promoting its cryptocurrency for weeks, saying it would make finance great again. But the industry largely rejected it. Sales fell 93% short of the goal. Solo, they failed to hit the minimum required to trigger a payout to Trump. But then on November 25th. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. Thanksgiving week, Justin Sun, a flashy, China born crypto founder, announced he was investing $30 million in World Liberty tokens. It's also an interesting, flashy, flashy person. What is flashy? That pushed the project over the threshold. And the Trumps now stand to collect at least $15 million based on terms detailed in World Liberty's Gold paper. So World Liberty has Gold paper, which outlines the terms for how the Trumps make money. And now that just and son gave it $30 million, now the trumps directly get $15 million, it says. Sun, 34, who five days earlier paid $6.2 million at a Sotheby's auction for a banana duct tape to a wall, is a controversial figure in the crypto world. He's fighting a lawsuit from the United States Securities Exchange Commission, which sued him in 2023, alleging he defrauded investors by manipulating the price of his Tron cryptocurrency with fake trades, which he has denied. What is Tron cryptocurrency? Oh, Tron has been criticized for facilitating illicit activity. It hosted 45% of all illicit flows last year, more than Ethereum or Bitcoin, the blockchain tracking firm TRM Labs said in a March report. And in October, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said in a report that Tron was the preferred choice for Asian crime syndicate. Tron in September announced a partnership with TRM to stop crypto crime. Quote, illicit activity is not welcome in our industry. Sun said in a statement at the time. Much of activity on Tron involves stablecoins, cryptocurrencies backed by real world assets held in reserve. But Circle Internet Financial, which controls the biggest U.S. stablecoin, discontinued support for Tron in February, citing, quote, risk management, among other reasons. World Liberty plants plans to launch its own stablecoin. Sun said that he hoped it would help connect Tron to US Financial institutions. So this is now who is influencing potentially the Trump administration and the crypto folks are getting what they wanted. The crypto industry is helping Donald Trump pick their SEC chair. They're out there telling the press the President elect's transition team is consulting with industry vets to find a pro crypto SEC chair. Look, my own view is that there is a place and a role for crypto. We have to get with the times. Crypto exists, there's a place for it, but it can't just be unfettered. I mean, it can't just have zero regulations at all. There's sometimes cryptos used for nefarious purposes. And Donald Trump's now using it as a way to gain and garner influence. So I ask you, the American people, as I said, as I would at the beginning of the video, which is, who is this benefiting? Is this benefiting 99.9% of Americans or is this benefiting the 0.01% of people who hang out at Mar a Lago and more significantly benefiting Donald Trump, who's directly finding ways to profit from this all basically creating these various hubs through all of these schemes of his as ways to by influence. And Wall Street Journal, which is supposed to be a credible business paper, although it was bought by Murdoch, they're just acting like, oh, this is just a bit unusual, this is a bit unorthodox. But you know, this is just an is how you have to do it right now. You gotta go and buy some Trump family crypto right here. Oh yeah. Finally, I wanted to talk about, and I said this at the outset, Jared Kushner's father, Charles Kushner, remember back in 2004, 2000, he pled guilty to witness tampering as well as Federal Election Commission violations. He was under investigation by the Republican United States Attorney, by the way, by named Chris Christie at that time. And one of the things that Charles Kushner was alleged to have done was set up his brother in law with a prostitute because his brother in law was testifying against him in the investigation. So Kushner wanted to set up the brother that was part of this witness tampering allegations. Yeah. That's great, right? Donald Trump pardoned Kushner and then made him now the ambassador to France. So Charles Kushner the ambassador to France. So that's the United States for America. That's the United States of America for you can be bought and sold to the highest bidder. I didn't even talk about the guy who's the United States, the head of the US Navy right now who's never in the Navy. This guy Phelan, a hedge fund guy who donated $1.7 billion and now he's the leader of the Navy. Someone who's never been in the Navy before. It's ridiculous. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. Love this video. Make sure you stay up to date on the latest breaking news and all things Midas by signing up to the Midas touch newsletter@midastouch.com newsletter.
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Marketing is hard, but I'll tell you a little secret. It doesn't have to be. Let me point something out. You're listening to a podcast right now and it's great. You love the host. You seek it out and download it. You listen to it while driving, working out, cooking, even going to the bathroom. Podcasts are a pretty close companion. And this is a podcast ad. Did I get your attention? You can reach great listeners like yourself with podcast advertising from Libsyn Ads. Choose from hundreds of top podcasts offering host endorsements, or run a pre produced ad like this one across thousands of shows. To reach your target audience in their favorite podcasts with Libsyn ads, go to Libsynads.com that's L I B S Y-N ads.com today.