BREAKING: Trump Just Filed A 927-Page Confession \u2014 He Made $1.4 Billion Running A Crypto Money Laundromat Out Of The Oval Office While You Held The Bag<\/h2>\n\nDean Blundell<\/a><\/div>\n\u00b7<\/div>\nJul 1<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"BREAKING:](\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!crh8!,w_1300,h_650,c_fill,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff7012d8c-fcfa-409c-98ee-4ec78c7b9c4c_864x494.png\")
<\/picture><\/a><\/div>\n\nJuly 1, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Hold that last name. We\u2019ll come back to it.<\/p>\n
So CNBC \u2014 a network whose entire brand is \u201cwe understand money\u201d \u2014 gets the first sit-down after the most staggering presidential self-enrichment disclosure in American history. And they send Joe Kernen, a man whose interviewing posture toward Trump has always been somewhere between \u201cgolf buddy\u201d and \u201cgolden retriever.\u201d To Kernen\u2019s minimal credit, he actually asked the question. To everyone\u2019s horror, Trump actually answered it. And the answer was a confession dressed up as a shrug.<\/p>\n
\u201cI Could Know. I Didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/h2>\n
Kernen asks: the crypto money in the disclosure was \u201can outsized number\u201d \u2014 did you know about the crypto ventures?<\/p>\n
Trump: \u201cI could know about it. I didn\u2019t. There\u2019s nothing illegal, there\u2019s nothing wrong with it. I could know.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not a denial. That\u2019s a man explaining that ignorance is a choice he\u2019s making for legal aesthetics, and that even the ignorance is optional. He\u2019s right about one thing, by the way \u2014 Title 18, Section 208, the federal conflict-of-interest statute, exempts the president and vice president. Congress wrote the carve-out assuming no president would ever be shameless enough to need it. Congratulations, Congress. You found him.<\/p>\n
But here\u2019s the fact-check that torches the whole \u201cI don\u2019t know, I don\u2019t get involved\u201d routine: Trump\u2019s own disclosure lists him as the manager, president, secretary AND treasurer of CIC Digital LLC \u2014 the entity collecting the $635 million in meme coin royalties. He\u2019s not a distant beneficiary of a blind trust. He\u2019s on the paperwork. Four titles deep.<\/p>\n
\u201cI Don\u2019t Even Know Who They Are\u201d<\/h2>\n
Trump\u2019s other defense \u2014 that his money is handed off to big firms and mystery people who invest it without his knowledge \u2014 collides with the disclosure at roughly the speed of a Truth Social post.<\/p>\n
The filings show approximately 21,000 trades in 2025<\/strong>, an average of about 85 per market day. Ten days accounted for a quarter of all trades, mostly during volatility triggered by his own policy announcements. In more than 200 instances, his accounts bought a stock the same day another of his accounts was selling it.<\/p>\nAnd then there\u2019s April. On April 8, 2025 \u2014 after four days of a market bloodbath caused by his \u201cLiberation Day\u201d tariffs, with the S&P down more than 12% \u2014 Trump\u2019s accounts made 327 stock purchases<\/strong> in a single day, loading up on Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Nvidia. The next morning, he posted \u201cGREAT TIME TO BUY!!!\u201d on Truth Social. Hours later, he announced a partial tariff retreat and the S&P 500 rocketed 9.5% in one of its best days ever recorded.<\/p>\nBuy the dip you dug. Post the hype. Reverse the policy. Collect. If a hedge fund manager did this, we\u2019d call it what it looks like. When a president does it, CNBC calls it \u201cwide-ranging.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf They Buy a Truck, They Have Inside Information\u201d<\/h2>\n
This was supposed to be a defense of his kids. Listen to what it actually is: an admission that the presidency touches everything, that his family\u2019s business runs through everything, and that therefore everything they do<\/em> is entangled with insider knowledge. He said the quiet part, then complained the quiet part was unfair to say. Read this and let me know if there are any \u201ctrucks\u201d in Don Jr and Eric\u2019s $9 billion defence contracting portfolio that didn\u2019t exist 2 years ago:<\/p>\n\n\n\ud83d\udea8 BOMBSHELL: The NYT Just Caught Trump And Lutnick Running An $8.9 BILLION \u201cCritical Minerals\u201d Grift Through Their Own Sons. FOURTEEN Companies. Zero Shame. Republicans Voted To Hide It.<\/h2>\n\nDean Blundell<\/a><\/div>\n\u00b7<\/div>\nJun 29<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"\ud83d\udea8](\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!aX5r!,w_1300,h_650,c_fill,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1cccd9ad-2516-4d51-8ed7-9fbb7bafb6e9_908x616.png\")
<\/picture><\/a><\/div>\n\nJune 29, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nRead full story<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe $400,000 Fig Leaf<\/h2>\n
\u201cI\u2019m the only president that\u2019s ever given up my salary.\u201d First \u2014 false. Herbert Hoover and JFK also declined theirs. Second \u2014 the math. The presidential salary is $400,000. Against $2.24 billion in one year\u2019s revenue, the forgone salary is roughly 0.018%<\/strong> of the take. It\u2019s a tip. It\u2019s the sticker on the collection jar that says \u201cevery bit helps\u201d while the truck backs up to the vault.<\/p>\nThe Rest of the Gish Gallop, Fact-Checked<\/h2>\n
\u201cThe most successful four years, including the covid.\u201d<\/strong> More than 400,000 Americans died of COVID during his first term. He left office as the first president since Hoover with fewer Americans employed than when he arrived. \u201cIncluding the covid\u201d is doing more heavy lifting than any three words in modern politics.<\/p>\n\u201cI saved 30 million lives\u201d (India-Pakistan).<\/strong> There was a real, brief India-Pakistan clash in May 2025 that ended in a ceasefire. Pakistan credited Trump and even floated him for a Nobel; India flatly disputes that Washington brokered anything. \u201c30 million lives\u201d is not a number from any analyst on Earth. It\u2019s a number from the same place \u201cthe biggest inauguration crowd ever\u201d came from.<\/p>\nIran: \u201ctotally defeated militarily… they have some missiles left.\u201d<\/strong> Both of those can\u2019t be true, and he said them back to back without blinking. That\u2019s not analysis. That\u2019s vibes with a security clearance.<\/p>\n\u201cIt took us 30 years to get out of the Great Depression… FDR didn\u2019t get us out of it.\u201d<\/strong> The Depression ran roughly 1929 to 1939-41 \u2014 about a decade, not thirty years. Unemployment fell from around 25% to the mid-teens under FDR\u2019s New Deal before wartime mobilization \u2014 under FDR \u2014 finished the job. Trump got the duration wrong by 20 years and the president wrong by one Roosevelt.<\/p>\n\u201cHow a Jewish person can vote for a Democrat is beyond me. I\u2019ve been the best president in the history of Israel.\u201d<\/strong> He is not the president of Israel, and telling American Jews their votes belong to a foreign country\u2019s interests is the dual-loyalty trope with a podium. It\u2019s an anti-semitic slur wearing a new suit.<\/p>\nThe housing bill hostage.<\/strong> A bipartisan affordability bill \u2014 the kind of thing both parties wanted as proof Washington can still function \u2014 sits unsigned because Trump wants the SAVE Act first: proof-of-citizenship voter registration, plus a wish list including a mail-in voting ban. Your rent relief is being held for ransom, and the ransom is your ballot.<\/p>\nThe Part That Should Scare You Most<\/h2>\n
Even the Wall Street Journal\u2019s editorial board \u2014 the in-flight magazine of American capital, not exactly Antifa\u2019s newsletter \u2014 called the disclosure \u201can unseemly display of using the Presidency for family profit\u201d and warned that foreign actors may conclude \u201cthey can buy American goodwill or favors if they cut the Trumps in on the action.\u201d<\/p>\n
When the WSJ editorial page is to the left<\/em> of your business network\u2019s interview, the interview wasn\u2019t journalism. It was a service.<\/p>\nA convicted felon \u2014 34 counts \u2014 found liable for sexual abuse in a case where the presiding judge stated the conduct was, in common understanding, rape, sat in the Oval Office and told a financial news network that he made two billion dollars, that he could know how, that he chose not to, and that there\u2019s nothing anyone can do about it because Congress exempted him from the rules.<\/p>\n
And the anchor thanked him for his time.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not a news cycle. That\u2019s a eulogy for one.<\/p>\n
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<\/picture><\/a><\/div>\nJuly 1, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Hold that last name. We\u2019ll come back to it.<\/p>\n
So CNBC \u2014 a network whose entire brand is \u201cwe understand money\u201d \u2014 gets the first sit-down after the most staggering presidential self-enrichment disclosure in American history. And they send Joe Kernen, a man whose interviewing posture toward Trump has always been somewhere between \u201cgolf buddy\u201d and \u201cgolden retriever.\u201d To Kernen\u2019s minimal credit, he actually asked the question. To everyone\u2019s horror, Trump actually answered it. And the answer was a confession dressed up as a shrug.<\/p>\n
\u201cI Could Know. I Didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/h2>\n
Kernen asks: the crypto money in the disclosure was \u201can outsized number\u201d \u2014 did you know about the crypto ventures?<\/p>\n
Trump: \u201cI could know about it. I didn\u2019t. There\u2019s nothing illegal, there\u2019s nothing wrong with it. I could know.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not a denial. That\u2019s a man explaining that ignorance is a choice he\u2019s making for legal aesthetics, and that even the ignorance is optional. He\u2019s right about one thing, by the way \u2014 Title 18, Section 208, the federal conflict-of-interest statute, exempts the president and vice president. Congress wrote the carve-out assuming no president would ever be shameless enough to need it. Congratulations, Congress. You found him.<\/p>\n
But here\u2019s the fact-check that torches the whole \u201cI don\u2019t know, I don\u2019t get involved\u201d routine: Trump\u2019s own disclosure lists him as the manager, president, secretary AND treasurer of CIC Digital LLC \u2014 the entity collecting the $635 million in meme coin royalties. He\u2019s not a distant beneficiary of a blind trust. He\u2019s on the paperwork. Four titles deep.<\/p>\n
\u201cI Don\u2019t Even Know Who They Are\u201d<\/h2>\n
Trump\u2019s other defense \u2014 that his money is handed off to big firms and mystery people who invest it without his knowledge \u2014 collides with the disclosure at roughly the speed of a Truth Social post.<\/p>\n
The filings show approximately 21,000 trades in 2025<\/strong>, an average of about 85 per market day. Ten days accounted for a quarter of all trades, mostly during volatility triggered by his own policy announcements. In more than 200 instances, his accounts bought a stock the same day another of his accounts was selling it.<\/p>\n And then there\u2019s April. On April 8, 2025 \u2014 after four days of a market bloodbath caused by his \u201cLiberation Day\u201d tariffs, with the S&P down more than 12% \u2014 Trump\u2019s accounts made 327 stock purchases<\/strong> in a single day, loading up on Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Nvidia. The next morning, he posted \u201cGREAT TIME TO BUY!!!\u201d on Truth Social. Hours later, he announced a partial tariff retreat and the S&P 500 rocketed 9.5% in one of its best days ever recorded.<\/p>\n Buy the dip you dug. Post the hype. Reverse the policy. Collect. If a hedge fund manager did this, we\u2019d call it what it looks like. When a president does it, CNBC calls it \u201cwide-ranging.\u201d<\/p>\n This was supposed to be a defense of his kids. Listen to what it actually is: an admission that the presidency touches everything, that his family\u2019s business runs through everything, and that therefore everything they do<\/em> is entangled with insider knowledge. He said the quiet part, then complained the quiet part was unfair to say. Read this and let me know if there are any \u201ctrucks\u201d in Don Jr and Eric\u2019s $9 billion defence contracting portfolio that didn\u2019t exist 2 years ago:<\/p>\n June 29, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cI\u2019m the only president that\u2019s ever given up my salary.\u201d First \u2014 false. Herbert Hoover and JFK also declined theirs. Second \u2014 the math. The presidential salary is $400,000. Against $2.24 billion in one year\u2019s revenue, the forgone salary is roughly 0.018%<\/strong> of the take. It\u2019s a tip. It\u2019s the sticker on the collection jar that says \u201cevery bit helps\u201d while the truck backs up to the vault.<\/p>\n \u201cThe most successful four years, including the covid.\u201d<\/strong> More than 400,000 Americans died of COVID during his first term. He left office as the first president since Hoover with fewer Americans employed than when he arrived. \u201cIncluding the covid\u201d is doing more heavy lifting than any three words in modern politics.<\/p>\n \u201cI saved 30 million lives\u201d (India-Pakistan).<\/strong> There was a real, brief India-Pakistan clash in May 2025 that ended in a ceasefire. Pakistan credited Trump and even floated him for a Nobel; India flatly disputes that Washington brokered anything. \u201c30 million lives\u201d is not a number from any analyst on Earth. It\u2019s a number from the same place \u201cthe biggest inauguration crowd ever\u201d came from.<\/p>\n Iran: \u201ctotally defeated militarily… they have some missiles left.\u201d<\/strong> Both of those can\u2019t be true, and he said them back to back without blinking. That\u2019s not analysis. That\u2019s vibes with a security clearance.<\/p>\n \u201cIt took us 30 years to get out of the Great Depression… FDR didn\u2019t get us out of it.\u201d<\/strong> The Depression ran roughly 1929 to 1939-41 \u2014 about a decade, not thirty years. Unemployment fell from around 25% to the mid-teens under FDR\u2019s New Deal before wartime mobilization \u2014 under FDR \u2014 finished the job. Trump got the duration wrong by 20 years and the president wrong by one Roosevelt.<\/p>\n \u201cHow a Jewish person can vote for a Democrat is beyond me. I\u2019ve been the best president in the history of Israel.\u201d<\/strong> He is not the president of Israel, and telling American Jews their votes belong to a foreign country\u2019s interests is the dual-loyalty trope with a podium. It\u2019s an anti-semitic slur wearing a new suit.<\/p>\n The housing bill hostage.<\/strong> A bipartisan affordability bill \u2014 the kind of thing both parties wanted as proof Washington can still function \u2014 sits unsigned because Trump wants the SAVE Act first: proof-of-citizenship voter registration, plus a wish list including a mail-in voting ban. Your rent relief is being held for ransom, and the ransom is your ballot.<\/p>\n Even the Wall Street Journal\u2019s editorial board \u2014 the in-flight magazine of American capital, not exactly Antifa\u2019s newsletter \u2014 called the disclosure \u201can unseemly display of using the Presidency for family profit\u201d and warned that foreign actors may conclude \u201cthey can buy American goodwill or favors if they cut the Trumps in on the action.\u201d<\/p>\n When the WSJ editorial page is to the left<\/em> of your business network\u2019s interview, the interview wasn\u2019t journalism. It was a service.<\/p>\n A convicted felon \u2014 34 counts \u2014 found liable for sexual abuse in a case where the presiding judge stated the conduct was, in common understanding, rape, sat in the Oval Office and told a financial news network that he made two billion dollars, that he could know how, that he chose not to, and that there\u2019s nothing anyone can do about it because Congress exempted him from the rules.<\/p>\n And the anchor thanked him for his time.<\/p>\n That\u2019s not a news cycle. That\u2019s a eulogy for one.<\/p>\n ____ VIDEO: \u201cI Could Know About It. I Didn\u2019t.\u201d: The CNBC Interview Where Trump Confessed to Everything and the Media Called It Access CNBC got the first interview after the biggest presidential self-enrichment disclosure in American history \u2014 and treated a … Continue reading \u201cIf They Buy a Truck, They Have Inside Information\u201d<\/h2>\n
\ud83d\udea8 BOMBSHELL: The NYT Just Caught Trump And Lutnick Running An $8.9 BILLION \u201cCritical Minerals\u201d Grift Through Their Own Sons. FOURTEEN Companies. Zero Shame. Republicans Voted To Hide It.<\/h2>\n
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<\/picture><\/a><\/div>\nThe $400,000 Fig Leaf<\/h2>\n
The Rest of the Gish Gallop, Fact-Checked<\/h2>\n
The Part That Should Scare You Most<\/h2>\n
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