A longtime friend of Donald Trump apparently pushed for his son Barron to get involved with a murky crypto startup on the basis it would protect him from scammers otherwise rife across the sector.
A real estate mogul with limited enough experience of the crypto space to refer to “memecoins” as “me-me-coins,” Steve Witkoff is understood to have enthusiastically lobbied the Republican presidential candidate on behalf of Chase Herro and Zachary Folkman.
Herro and Folkman are the brains behind World Liberty Financial...