Washingon, DC – Congress Democrats have threatened with prosecution, have introduced legislation and planned demonstrations in the driving of US President Donald Trump.
Trump, whose affiliated companies have published the $ Trump Memecoin a few days before being inaugurated for his second term, announced that he would welcome the 220 largest holders of his token for a dinner at the National Golf Club Trump in Potomac Falls, in Virginia, leading to a price spice because the interested parties immediately bought more token to secure an invitation.
Critics called the corrupt movement, stressing the fact that foreign buyers who, otherwise, could not legally give money to the president bought tokens, as well as the opacity surrounding their purchases – many dinner participants are unknown, and some even indicated the ability to maintain anonymity as a factor in their decision to go, according to the Washington Post.
The creator of Tron Justin Sun boasted of being the best token holder before dinner, with blockchain explorers suggesting that the portfolio with $ Trump’s biggest attire is linked to HTX, an crypto exchange linked to Sun.
Legal action
Senator Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut Democrat who previously wrote open letters to two companies affiliated to Trump asking their Crypto companies, told journalists in a press call organized by Watchdog de Center-Gauche, we responsible that Trump had “the auction” access to the White House with the Memecoin dinner.
“What’s going on this evening … is in force, put a” for sale “sign in the White House,” said Blumenthal. “There is an auction for an access. He literally says to investors:” The more you buy from my same, the more you have the chance to come and have dinner with me. “”
Blumenthal suggested that a trial could force Trump to at least comply with certain rules concerning gifts or foreign payments.
During the first presidency of Trump, Blumenthal and other members of the Congress continued Trump for having allegedly violated the clause of foreign emoluments of the American Constitution, which prohibits civil servants from taking donations from foreign governments without the authorization of the Congress. Although a court of appeal finally allowed the pursuit, Blumenthal said on Thursday that he was ready to try again.
“If there was an authorization from Congress, the members would take legal action. I would be more than happy to do so. I would be impatient to do so,” he said.
Even if the congress does not authorize this, private groups, such as public interest organizations, could also bring legal action, which legislators could support by the Memoirs of Amicus, he said.
“And essentially, the allegation would be, it violates the provision of the Constitution of the United States which prohibits the payments or the advantages of a foreign, plenipotentiary power,” he said. “It is specifically listed in the Constitution, unless it has consent with Congress and has no consent.”
New invoices
Representative Maxine Waters, the classification democrat of the Chamber’s Financial Services Committee, pushed a new bill on Thursday that again seeks to make crypto transactions of the president explicitly illegal. Legislation – labeled the stop trading, retention and unfair market gains in the Crypto Act of 2025, carefully appointed to the end of the acronym as Stop Trump in Crypto Act – prohibited senior officials and legislators to own, control or serve as an agent of a crypto company or the realization of the madness, and also negotiation in digital actions If they have a special vision or their role as government.
“Nowhere is Trump’s blatant contempt and the disrespect for the law of Trump more apparent than in the way he exploited the presidency office to promote shaded and fraudulent cryptographic companies that have no real value, and are useless than to fill her pockets,” Waters said in a statement when she announced the legislation.
A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comments on the backlash of the Democrats. During a press briefing, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump “assisted [the dinner] in his personal time. “”
“It is not a white house dinner, it will not take place here,” she said when asked if the White House would share the names of the participants.
Waters’ bill is substantially similar to the previous efforts of Senator Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat behind the modern emoluments and the application of the Maloves (even), and the representative Sam Liccardo, who also had a bill in the Chamber.
Protestant Democrats against Trump’s dinner also reveal the party’s cryptography division. It is largely the same legislators who maintained opposition to cryptographic legislation, while another party faction recently joined the Republicans to advance a bill on stables in the Senate. Their argument: Trump’s actions can be inappropriate – or even illegal – but new legislation does not need to emphasize this point more.
New events
Democratic senators Elizabeth Warren, Jeff Merkley and Murphy held a press conference Thursday afternoon alongside consumer defense groups to denounce the plans of the president. Legislators demand that Trump reveal the names of the evening participants.
“With portfolios linked abroad, transactions that have not been found and no authorized press, the event raises alarming questions about foreign influence, national security and growing corruption at the heart of Trump’s cryptographic empire,” they said in a statement announcing the press conference at the American Capitol.
During the press conference herself, Warren, the best democrat of the Senate banks committee, was held in front of a podium with posters saying “liberating the list of guests” and asking “who comes to dinner?”
“Tonight is the orgy of corruption,” Warren said at the Thursday press conference. She distinguished the expected attendance at the Tron’s Sun, saying that he “will have a good time to the dinner tonight” after the Securities and Exchange Commission interrupted her work of application of Tron under the Trump administration.
“Even if you publish the names, it’s always corrupt,” said Murphy on Thursday, adding that at least the sharing of participants’ information “will show us who bought access to him.”
“This president is operated on, both literally and figured,” said Liccardo, who added that Trump’s claim to participate personally could open it to legal accusations.
Merkley had to join an evening event near the gold club dinner, just outside Washington.
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Update (May 22, 2025, 19:20 UTC): Add information from the Senate DEMS press conference.
