In a Truth Social post Wednesday, President Trump typed out a lengthy paragraph on the necessity of protecting the prediction and crypto markets, taking the opportunity to label a slew of Democrats “scum,” call the US the crypto capital of the world, and claim prediction markets are a new form of financial market.

He didn’t say that he and his family are heavily invested in both sectors.

Trump does seem to have conflicted feelings about both crypto and prediction markets—as recently as 2021, he called crypto “a scam,” and his Truth Social post followed a story from the New York........

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