Binance, CZ & Trump
MGX, Binance and USD1: the conflict-of-interest question
A $2 billion investment, a politically connected stablecoin and a documented request for records.
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Personnes et projets
The transaction under scrutiny
On 11 June 2025, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley requested records from MGX and Binance about using World Liberty Financial's USD1 to settle a $2 billion investment. Their letter asked who proposed USD1, which communications involved the Trump family or WLF, and whether incentives influenced the choice. This is a documented congressional inquiry and the senators' criticism, not a judicial finding of bribery.
Follow the economics
A stablecoin issuer can benefit when demand expands the assets backing its tokens. The exact benefit depends on reserve composition, interest rates, custody costs and contractual revenue sharing. The face value of a $2 billion settlement is not $2 billion of profit to an issuer or a family. An annualised yield estimate is also not evidence of an actual distribution.
Chronology is not an agreement
Zhao later received a presidential pardon, as recorded by the DOJ. Placing the investment and pardon in a timeline raises questions worth investigating; it does not prove that one purchased the other. That claim would need evidence of an agreement or exchange of benefits. The wiki retains the question without inventing the missing link.
Sources
- US Senate Banking minority: MGX / Binance records request, 11 June 2025
- World Liberty Financial: product and governance descriptions
- US DOJ: presidential clemency register, Zhao entry dated 21 October 2025
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