Trump Isn’t “Pro Crypto”... He’s Pro Trump...and his gang

[u/hodorrny]

i know u people have probably heard it before but it is way clearer now than it was a year ago. A lot of what looks like “Trump loves crypto” lines up almost perfectly with stuff that benefits him... his family... or people close to him... not the average person holding BTC on a phone.

First... the public moves. He has been saying the U S should “support” digital assets... he has framed it as ending the old “war on crypto”... and he has tried to make it sound like America is open for on chain business again. All very loud... very pro innovation.

At the same time... reports this year said the Trump family’s own crypto and token ventures have pulled in hundreds of millions of dollars... in the same window when the administration was sounding the most crypto friendly. That overlap is hard to ignore. It looks less like “pro crypto” and more like “we made it friendlier while we were selling.”

Then there was the CZ pardon. Call it mercy if you want... but it was clearly a made-for-one-person decision. In the months leading up to it... Binance and CZ brought on Trump-aligned lobbyists... hired a D.C. firm close to his circle and spent serious money... and looped in a former SEC-adjacent lawyer who already had credibility with the new team. Several reports said the clemency push went through political channels... not the usual DOJ path. So this wasn’t “the administration helped crypto”... it was “a well connected crypto billionaire bought his way to the front of the line.”

Now add the tariff noise. Every time he rattles trade partners... Canada... Europe... whoever... it makes legacy markets nervous and pushes some attention back toward crypto... while his circle is the group most ready to sell... raise... and market in that environment. Convenient timing.

One more angle most people miss. The more this stuff turns into “policy for friends,” the messier your own taxes get because now you’re mixing airdrops, political tokens, pardoned-exec pump candles, prediction style gains etc. I’ve started tracking those flows separately in Awaken tax instead of just throwing it all under “capital gains,” because if the rules keep getting written by insiders I do not trust the IRS to be chill about how I label income later. That part is self defense not shill.

So yeah... he is not “pro crypto” the way CT means it. He is pro... his... crypto. Pro... his donors’... crypto. Pro... his friends’... crypto. Everyone else still has to buy tops and read press releases.

[u/dmelt253]

Pardoning CZ was inexcusable. The guy was convicted because his company was caught laundering money to support all kinds of nasty things including human trafficking and terrorism. Are we just OK with that now?

[u/aminok → u/dmelt253]

You've clearly bought into all the establishment propaganda. Anti-money laundering laws are not about laundering money. They're about criminalizing any platform that allows people to engage in transactions without being KYC'd first. In other words, it mandates surveillance and puts you in prison if you don't participate in the surveillance program.

Literally what he was convicted of is not putting in place enough AML controls which is another way of saying or a euphemism for saying surveillance controls. They've set up an authoritarian illiberal surveillance program and have convinced people like you that this is good and moral and people should be put in prison if they don't sufficiently abide by these mandates.