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Trump's pursuit of crypto powers is a constitutional scandal that is waiting to be passed

“No matter whether it is a supply token or a Memecoin, it is not regulated by the Sec,” says Lisa Bragança, lawyer at Bragança Law and former branch at the Sec. In order to avoid the attention of supervisory authorities, Trump only has to refrain from fraud and unfair trading practices, she says.

However, experts are wondering whether it could have legal effects. Although critics have argued from the start that Trump could create a way to bribery – by investing large sums in the coin and increasing its price, politically motivated actors could theoretically put the gap in the foreground with the president – dinner brings the risk that the restrictions on the emoluments violate.

“If the government of Yemen buys under Mememive on purchase, we won't know,” says Bragança. “If it is a supply coin and, for example, a representative of Russia appears with the president for dinner, we know that it is an emolutionary problem.”

Access to the seated US president has a greater potential political currency than ever before. “Trump mixes even more power in the executive than before,” says Hauser. “With ever greater performance, a larger warehouse comes from favors that can be sold.”

The names of the Trump owners will currently gain a place at dinner, which are hidden behind pseudonyms and alphanumeric crypto letters. The White House did not answer when he was asked whether the list of participants is published.

Whether Trump would be exposed to the theoretical violation of foreign emolution laws would depend on the strength of his grip on the congress, the political class, which was commissioned to maintain the constitution, also due to the survey.

In the halls of the congress, the demands after Trump's elevation are already growing. “He grants the audience to buy the Memecoin who enriches him directly,” said April 25th in a town hall meeting.

At the moment it is unlikely that the Republican majority of congresses and Trump's command of his party will mean the indictment for deprivation of office. Trump also previously provided in several lawsuits in which it was claimed that during his first time he violated his hotel business, which was later dismissed, against emolutionary clauses.

“The violation of the constitution should be a big deal, but how to make it consistently is a challenge,” says Hauser. “At the moment Trump rules the Republican party with such an iron hand that the idea of ​​a successful office, which leads to a culprit judgment, is only a bit imaginative.”

In his potential to paint Trump in a little flattering light – as president who put his own financial interests about the nation – the Trump -Münzessen could help change the dial. With the intermediate elections only one year and the majority of the Republican house is only slim, public perception.

“The possibility of corruption does not change sensibly by dinner. However, the optics may be much worse for Trump,” says Hauser. “The intactiveness changes the likelihood that there will be an impact to violate the emrocers' clause. It creates more susceptibility.”

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