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Trump Crypto Ventures Netted Family $2.3 Billion as Investors Absorbed Matching Losses, Reuters Finds

6/19/2026

A Reuters investigation alleges the Trump family extracted roughly $2.3 billion across four cryptocurrency ventures while investors in those same projects absorbed losses of approximately equal magnitude — also about $2.3 billion, including paper losses — by the end of April.

The probe covers World Liberty Financial, the TRUMP memecoin, ALT5 Sigma, and American Bitcoin, and builds its case from blockchain tracing, exchange filings, and weighted average pricing.

World Liberty Financial: Token Sales and a Token-Count Gap World Liberty Financial disclosed raising $1.4 billion through sales of 30 billion WLFI governance tokens, which Reuters calculates yielded approximately $987 million for the Trump family.

The investigation found a discrepancy in an October 2025 regulatory filing submitted under European crypto-sales rules: World Liberty reported holding 3 billion fewer tokens than it had previously stated publicly.

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