At a committee hearing, Jamie Raskin says the United Arab Emirates paid the Trump family crypto business $500 million in January 2025, and months later the administration granted the UAE access to highly sensitive AI chips. He also says Donald Trump hosted a dinner for top buyers of his meme coin, and more than half of the 220 attendees were foreign nationals, including investors with close ties to China's governing party.
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- Who
- Jamie Raskin
- Where
- hearing (committee hearing on the ICC and DSA; committee not named in transcript
- Original footage
- The Financial Express · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 50 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
And in January of 2025, the family crypto business got $500 million from the United Arab Emirates. Just months later, the administration granted the United Arab Emirates access to highly sensitive AI chips. In May of last year, Donald Trump held a competition dinner for the biggest purchasers of his meme coin where the reward for investing the most was private access at a dinner to the leader of the free world. More than half of the 220 attendees were foreign nationals, including investors with close ties to China's governing party. They've turned the presidency and the White House into a bonanza in international pay -to -play fare for governments and contractors to come in.
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