The guest list for president Donald Trump's private dinner with top investors in his crypto tokens is not being publicized, but CNN's Allison Morrow vowed to find out who's attending.
The White House is refusing to release a guest list, saying the president only ever acts in the public interest, and lawmakers from both parties have expressed concern about the event at Trump's golf course and resort in Potomac Falls, Virginia.
"One thing we do know for sure is that all of these people paid a lot of money – thousands, tens of thousands and even millions of dollars – to attend this dinner and have private access to the president," Morrow said. "We also know the White House and the organizers of the event are not releasing a guest list, so their anonymity that they have with crypto is pretty much guaranteed. Of course, we're going to try to find out who else is going but, you know, this is underscoring some of the concerns that people have about all of this happening in secret."
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All but six of the top 25 holders in the $TRUMP memecoin, who are all invited to the dinner and eligible for a private White House tour on Friday, used foreign exchanges to invest in what some analysts have called a functionally worthless product.
"We know that a lot of these people are from overseas," Morrow said. "Bloomberg did an analysis that showed that the crypto wallets that were the top holders of Trump's memecoin, who got access to this dinner, were from platforms that only operate overseas and, in fact, don't allow U.S. citizens to trade on them. So there's a good chance that half of these people attending tonight will be from overseas. So bottom line, this is kind of the encapsulation of all of the crypto potential corruption that ethics experts have been warning about for months."
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