Don Jr says his family got into crypto after banks refused to do business after Jan 6 'nonsense' [View all]
Source: The Independent
Wednesday 13 August 2025 15:03 BST
Donald Trump Jr. says his family “didn’t have a choice” but to get into crypto because banks didn’t want to do business with them after January 6, 2021, referring to the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol as “all the nonsense.” “We got into crypto because we didn’t have a choice,” the president’s eldest son said on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning while discussing his family’s cryptocurrency business’s $1.5 billion digital coin deal.
The Trump family’s crypto business, World Liberty Finance, announced Monday that technology firm ALT5 Sigma would make a big purchase of its digital coin, $WLFI. ALT5 said it would sell $1.5 billion worth of shares, then use that money to purchase the Trump signature digital coin, which the family founded last year.
“Every major banking institution, the people that, two weeks before we were debanked, we could’ve called and gotten a loan in five seconds. They disappeared. We were left high and dry,” he said.
“Basically, during the first term, certainly after the…let’s call it January 6… all the nonsense, it got significantly worse,” he said, referring to the deadly mob of his father’s supporters who stormed the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-jr-crypto-jan-6-b2806900.html
Outta the mouth of babes.
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