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INSIGHT: Trump family makes $2.3bn in crypto profits while investors suffer enormous losses

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U.S. President Donald Trump gestures at the Bitcoin 2024 event in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., July 27, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Wurm/File Photo

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By Tom Bergin

For years, Donald J. Trump has followed a simple playbook for making money: He lent his marquee name to a product, a company or a real estate project, often invested little to no money in it, touted it heavily, and waited for the cash to pour in.

Since mid-2024, when he was campaigning for what would become his second presidential term, Trump and his family have applied the same template to the freewheeling world of cryptocurrency – with spectacular results.

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