By Katherine Tinsley
4:13am PDT, Jun 3, 2025
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George Stephanopoulos slammed
Donald Trump and his offspring for how they've profited from cryptocurrency and other deals throughout his presidency, calling out the "unprecedented money-making by a sitting president and his family."
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Before he transitioned into politics, Donald Trump had a successful career in real estate and reality television. But Trump's business endeavors while serving the nation could now be conflicts of interest.
"The scale is staggering," George Stephanopoulos said on the Sunday, June 1, episode of This Week. "President Trump and his family are making hundreds of millions, potentially billions of dollars — as Trump and his administration take official actions that benefit contributors and investors."
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George Stephanopoulos also took issue with Donald Trump's
decision to pardon several convicted fraudsters including reality stars
Julie Chrisley and
Todd Chrisley.
"Just this week, we learned of pardons to tax cheats — including a man whose pardon was granted weeks after his mother attended a million-dollar-a-head fundraiser with the president," Stephanopoulos said.
"The Trump Media and Technology Group raised nearly $2.5 billion from 50 institutional investors whose identities have not been disclosed," he continued. "The SEC dropped its lawsuit against the cryptocurrency firm Binance days after Binance began listing the cryptocurrency launched by World Liberty Financial — the crypto firm started by Trump's family."
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George Stephanopoulos later quoted
David Frum's "
The Trump Presidency's World-Historical Heist," an article that accused Donald Trump of historic corruption.
"Nothing like this has been attempted or even imagined in the history of the American presidency," Frum wrote. "Throw away the history books, discard feeble comparisons to scandals of the past."
"There is no analogy with any previous action by any past president," Frum continued. "The brazenness of the self-enrichment resembles nothing seen in any earlier White House. This is American corruption on the scale of a post-Soviet republic or a post-colonial African dictatorship."
