This summer, Steve Witkoff, President Trump's Middle East envoy, paid a visit to the coast of Sardinia, a stretch of the Mediterranean Sea crowded with super yachts. On one of those extravagant vessels, Mr. Witkoff sat down with a member of the ultrarich ruling family of the United Arab Emirates. He was meeting Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a trim figure in dark glasses who controls $1.5 trillion of the Emiratis' sovereign wealth.
Fox Business hosts, on Tuesday, called out President Donald Trump and his family for being heavily invested in cryptocurrencies at the same time his administration pushes crypto-friendly legislation, as host Stuart Varney put it. Fox Business reporter Lauren Simonetti commented it appeared to be a clear conflict of interest. Their comments came a day after the Trump family's flagship token WLFI started trading.
Kirkpatrick estimated that the family has raked in more than $3 billion dollars since the start of Donald Trump's second term, with significant earnings linked to foreign investments.