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As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest.
One reason why Iranians have told Trump before that they are not going to "negotiate" with non-/quasi-government entities like Witkoff and Kushner - they have no bribes to give them.
So Trump ostensibly decided to send Vance to Islamabad again, then reconsidered, likely given Vance dismal record of fiascos with Orban's election in Hungary and previous meeting with Iranians in Pakistan - the excuse given for change of plans was that he was concerned about Vance's "security"... apparently not realizing that this would look like he was not concerned about security of his son-in-law and partner in crypto crimes, since sons of Steve Witkoff are the co-founders and Zack is CEO of crumbling WLFI crypto empire and its rapidly declining coin price.
Trump family receives 75% of net proceeds when World Liberty Financial sells $WLFI coins, and gets a cut of USD1 stablecoin profits. At the end of 2025, the Trumps had made $1B in proceeds, and holding what was at the time $3B worth in unsold coins.
USD1 is one of the stablecoins integrated into TRON blockchain, which is owned by Justin Sun, a crypto billionaire who bought 3 billion of $WLF coins $45M just before 2024 elections, giving it a boost when World Liberty Financial was just starting and nobody wanted their coins, and in early 2025 he bought or was awarded another 1 billion coins worth at the time $30M, making him a WLFI advisor and largest token owner in what he then described as "excellent project." Sun also heavily invested in tanking $TRUMP memecoin.
It paid off last March when the SEC settled the lawsuit against him for fraud, selling the unregistered "crypto securities" and other "investment instruments" and money laundering for only $10M with no admission of wrongdoing, and several investigations into some of his companies were closed with no criminal or civil charges brought.
www.npr.org - Chinese crypto businessman eats his controversial $6.2 million banana art piece - November 29, 2024
By market cap, $TRON is now 8th largest token project worth $30B, USD1 stablecoin is 22nd at $4.4B, $WLFI token ($0.073) is 37th at $2.3B.
Sun is now suing WLFI in California federal court for secret shenanigans that effectively had frozen his token holdings making them impossible to trade, and earlier this month he alleged that World Liberty had secretly embedded what he described as a "backdoor blacklisting function" in the blockchain-based contracts used for the tokens. That gave World Liberty "unilateral power" to "freeze, restrict, and effectively confiscate the property rights" of token holders without cause or recourse. He also complained that WLFI threatened to "burn" his tokens if he didn't go along with new bylaws.
According to lawsuit, Sun claims that WLFI "refused my requests to unfreeze my tokens and restore my rights as a token holder" and also that in early 2025 WLFI "repeatedly pressured" him to invest additional capital in the venture between April and July 2025, including requests to commit another $200m to acquire their stablecoin and an equity stake in the company.
"Lie down with dogs, get up with flees" - that's the Trumpy way.
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*** EU Considering Sanctions Against Israel ***
"The EU is considering sanctions against Israel for importing Ukrainian grain stolen by Russia. Ukraine demands explanations and does not rule out a diplomatic crisis."
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This is another reason why Ukrainian President Volodomir Zelensky avoids Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu like the plague.
Source: EU May Sanction Rogue State