Many Democrats, including Warner, are insisting that the crypto industry belongs in the conversation about Trump administration corruption.
“We are getting peppered on a weekly basis on the latest way the president is trying to profit off of this,” said Will Ragland, vice president of research in the advocacy department at the Center for American Progress.
Since 2024, Ragland said the industry decided to lash itself to Trump and his political allies, and a major piece of evidence is the president’s primary super PAC, MAGA Inc. Crypto interests represent the leading industry contributors to the PAC, according to an analysis from his organization, noting almost $89 million in contributions from the sector, significantly outpacing other industries.
The industry’s close relationship with Trump, who controls a personal crypto empire himself, has brought some benefits to the sector, such as the crypto-friendly regulators who have dismissed…
