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Award-winning Reuters journalist, Author of 'Free Lunch Thinking' and 'Spills & Spin: The Inside Story of BP'. DM for Signal, email. https://t.co/c8K8uNyTOM

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Tom Bergin
23 days
Pakistan's Dawn has picked up our report on the explosion of President Trump's earnings in 2025: Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine - World - https://t.co/69oHnLN2gF
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dawn.com
Over half of the Trumps’ income — $463m — comes from sales of World Liberty tokens alone; experts raise concerns about unprecedented conflict of interest.
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@SenBlumenthal
Richard Blumenthal
23 days
Americans have a right to know who is buying access to the Presidency & the influence they are getting in return.
@ldelevingne
Lawrence Delevingne
23 days
Most purchases of $WLFI $TRUMP were likely via foreign wallets - analysis by @molly0xFFF @nansen_ai
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Tom Bergin
23 days
Our story on how the Trump organization’s income soared 1600% in the first half of 2025 compared to H1 2024 can be found here:
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reuters.com
The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found. Much of that cash came from foreign sources.
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Tom Bergin
23 days
Daily Beast take on our findings from yesterday: Trump Crypto Business Got Millions From Chinese Tycoon Under Investigation https://t.co/RhQ9ziGrE1 via @thedailybeast
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thedailybeast.com
The Trump family reportedly made over $800 million from crypto sales in the first half of this year.
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Tom Bergin
24 days
Of that total, more than 90% came from Trump crypto ventures. The Trump family’s crypto income is now approaching and could even exceed $1 billion. @specialreports @gauthiervillars @_tom_wilson_ @michelleconlin @ldelevingne @TomLasseter $WLFI $TRUMP $ALTS
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Tom Bergin
24 days
We spent the last few months cataloguing how the Trump family's fortunes have fared since January. We found that in the first half of 2025, the Trump Organization’s income soared 17-fold compared to H1 2024, to $864 million,
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reuters.com
The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found. Much of that cash came from foreign sources.
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Tom Bergin
5 months
We’re half-way through 2024, which suggests 8K millionaires should have left by now, on top of the thousands claimed for last year. Surely ‘exodus’ proponents can come up with more than a few interviews with angry multi-millionaires and a handful of friends to support the theory
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Tom Bergin
5 months
of the non-dom tax changes but, after repeated predictions of tax-motivated exoduses, of which we can find no evidence, isn’t it time to look for some hard data on this before parroting lobbyists’ talking points.
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Tom Bergin
5 months
As I note in my book #FreeLunchThinking, their data “showed the number of financiers moving from London to the Alpine cantons shrunk from almost none in the mid-2000s to even closer to none in the years after the tax hike. I am not saying that no one will move as a result
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Tom Bergin
5 months
This has been the most consistently over-hyped 'trend' of past decades. When Labour unveiled the 50% income tax rate years back, wealth advisors and many commentators predicted an “exodus” of financiers to Switzerland. As it happens, the Swiss (predictably) track such moves.
@lionelbarber
Lionel Barber
5 months
The exodus is real - and the Reeves Budget bears a huge amount of blame, as I keep on hearing as the wealthy pack their bags
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Tom Bergin
8 months
The Trump family raised hundreds of millions of dollars from buyers who each paid at least $1 mln for the privilege of owning crypto tokens that generate no income and which cannot be sold, our research found
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reuters.com
As World Liberty Financial raised more than half a billion dollars, President Donald Trump’s family took control of the crypto venture and grabbed the lion’s share of those funds, aided by governance...
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Simon Robinson
9 months
Today 👇🏼
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Reuters Press Team
9 months
Statement from the editors of Reuters, The Associated Press and Bloomberg News https://t.co/nOUWbW4uH6
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Tom Bergin
10 months
Do as I say, not as I do- our story on how Congress loves crypto, but not as an investment: U.S. lawmakers are light on crypto heading into Trump era
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President Donald Trump’s administration is expected to usher in a boom time for crypto but a Reuters review shows very few members of the incoming congress are invested in bitcoin or other digital...
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richard brooks
10 months
The great and the not so good: honours to heroes of the Post Office scandal and, er, the senior partner of the law firm helping to persecute them. Details in @PrivateEyeNews.
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