Trump Denies Awareness of UAE-Linked Investment in Family Crypto Firm

Donald Trump denied having knowledge about reported foreign investment in World Liberty Financial during a CBS News 60 Minutes interview aired Sunday. The business is associated with his family, and Trump acknowledged that he remains a co-owner, even as the company faces scrutiny over links to investors in the United Arab Emirates. Bitcoin.com and CoinCodex both identify the financial arrangement at issue as a reported $500 million investment involving UAE-linked investors. The figure was independently corroborated by those two outlets. No alternative amount appears in the supplied coverage, which means the available reporting consistently points to $500 million as the reported scale of the deal. The coverage agrees on the central point: Trump said he did not know about the UAE-linked investment despite his continuing ownership interest in World Liberty Financial. Decrypt adds that, when pressed about why he does not divest from the family venture, Trump said his sons run the business and that every president faces conflicts. Bitcoin.com, by contrast, foregrounds his acknowledgment that he remains a co-owner. World Liberty Financial operates in the same sector as the wider crypto market, where the token bears the WLFI ticker. The political and ownership questions are separate from the reported investment itself, but they add a governance-related layer of attention to a business whose token is already being monitored by market participants. WLFI was priced at $0.04811783, gaining 3.30% over the previous 24 hours while declining 3.70% over seven days, with a market capitalization of $1.53 billion. The broader crypto market capitalization was $2.56 trillion and the overall market was broadly lower; Bitcoin fell 1.37% over 24 hours, while the Fear and Greed index stood at 29, placing sentiment in the Fear zone. The immediate issues to monitor are any further disclosure about the reported UAE-linked investment and Trump's ownership and conflict-of-interest position.