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Trump Auction Creates Foreign Influence Opportunity

May 12, 2025 at 6:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The sale of face-to-face access to President Trump using the Trump family’s own cryptocurrency has done more than benefit him financially, though it has certainly done that,” the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Trump announced last month that leading buyers of a digital coin his family is marketing would be rewarded with a private dinner with him at one of his golf courses and that the very top bidders would win a tour of the White House.”

“The auction, which ends Monday, has set off a spectacle that has drawn bipartisan criticism, triggered a suspicious trading pattern, and left a sitting United States president wide open to attempts to corruptly influence him.”

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Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

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