Trump family crypto firm sues billionaire investor Justin Sun for defamation

World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s cryptocurrency company, is suing billionaire investor Justin Sun for defamation after he accused the firm of improperly freezing his tokens.

In a lawsuit filed Monday, the company argued that Sun engaged in a “campaign of defamatory statements” on the social platform X.

“Sun’s posts impugn World Liberty, a Florida-based decentralized finance company, and its governance integrity and business relationships, causing substantial and ongoing harm to World Liberty,” the lawsuit reads.

Sun, who founded the crypto company TRON, was a major early investor in World Liberty Financial. He purchased about three billion tokens from World Liberty Financial in the months after........

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