John Oliver on Trump’s crypto dealings: ‘Flagrantly corrupt and compromised’

The Last Week Tonight host focused on the ‘shady shit’ the US president has been involved in with regards to crypto John Oliver took aim at Donald Trump and his family’s various crypto schemes on his return to Last Week Tonight, calling it all “corrupt and compromised”. The host joked that Trump looked as if he was “slowly turning into Mrs Doubtfire” before moving on to the night’s major theme, calling him “the first crypto president”. Trump had once referred to bitcoin as “a scam”, but has had a “pretty significant change of heart” after seeing an industry “willing to spend a shitload helping him get elected”. He also saw that it was a fruitful source of money – in his first year back in office, he made more than $2.2bn, most of which came from his family’s crypto dealings of $1.4bn. It has now become the family’s most dominant business interest and they have a “truly absurd number of crypto-related ventures”, yet Oliver decided to focus on just two of them, “the big one and the dumb one” which he joked is how Trump refers to his sons Eric and Don Jr. The first is the Trump memecoins, which are online jokes converted into real money an

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