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Rebecca Ballhaus

@rebeccaballhaus
41 posts
2026-02-02
Four days before Trump's inauguration, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal w/the Trump family to buy a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial for $500M, according to documents & people familiar. The buyer paid half up front, steering $187M to Trump family
2026-02-02 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Documents and sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan backed a $500M investment for a 49% stake in WLF, four days before Trump's inauguration

$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips

At the time the Abu Dhabi royal invested in World Liberty, the company had no products.  It had raised $82 million by selling a token called WLFI.  But the investment didn't give the buyer rights to future WLFI token sales—leaving the Tahnoon-backed entity out of what was then the company's only source of revenue.
2026-02-02 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Documents and sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan backed a $500M investment for a 49% stake in WLF, four days before Trump's inauguration

$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips

2026-02-01
Four days before Trump's inauguration, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal w/the Trump family to buy a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial for $500M, according to documents & people familiar. The buyer paid half up front, steering $187M to Trump family
2026-02-01 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Documents and sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan backed a $500M investment for a 49% stake in WLF, four days before Trump's inauguration

$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips

At the time the Abu Dhabi royal invested in World Liberty, the company had no products. It had raised $82 million by selling a token called WLFI. But the investment didn't give the buyer rights to future WLFI token sales—leaving the Tahnoon-backed entity out of what was then
2026-02-01 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Documents and sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan backed a $500M investment for a 49% stake in WLF, four days before Trump's inauguration

$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips

2025-10-24
NEWS: Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the convicted founder of the crypto exchange Binance, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's own crypto company. w/@jdawsey1 @kowsmann @AABerwick https://www.wsj.com/...
2025-10-24 View on X
Wall Street Journal

President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's World Liberty Financial

reporting no longer grounded in truth. The facts are clear and stated as follows: 👇 @acyn : Collins: Can you explain why you chose to pardon the founder of Binance and did it have ...

NEWS: Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the convicted founder of the crypto exchange Binance, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's own crypto company. w/@jdawsey1 @kowsmann @AABerwick https://www.wsj.com/...
2025-10-24 View on X
Bloomberg

Trump's pardon of CZ is a gift to the crypto industry, which has spent heavily to ease regulations and rewrite history to remove associations with criminality

The move by Trump comes as his family works to profit from coins.

2025-03-13
Representatives of Trump's family have held talks to take a financial stake in the U.S. arm of crypto exchange Binance, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that would put Trump in business with the firm that pleaded guilty in 2023 to violating
2025-03-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Trump family representatives have held talks to take a financial stake in Binance US, and Changpeng Zhao has been pushing for Trump to pardon him

Discussions for stake in Binance's U.S. arm come as founder Changpeng Zhao has pushed for the administration to pardon him for his own 2023 guilty plea

2025-03-09
Trump was regaling donors at Mar-a-Lago about all his administration was doing for the crypto industry when he turned to a more personal element: all the crypto money he is making as president. He marveled at how much $ his memecoin could bring in and asked the audience if they
2025-03-09 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources detail how crypto flooded Trump with cash, including $50M+ in donations from at least eight execs, and how he is doing much of what the industry wants

The president had called cryptocurrency a ‘scam’ but during his campaign last year he was persuaded of its value, especially as an investment for the Trump family

Bo Loudon, an 18-year-old friend of Barron Trump, has touted his connections in calls with cryptocurrency executives seeking access to the Trump family. In one call, he said it would cost tens of thousands of dollars to keep him on retainer. https://www.wsj.com/...
2025-03-09 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources detail how crypto flooded Trump with cash, including $50M+ in donations from at least eight execs, and how he is doing much of what the industry wants

The president had called cryptocurrency a ‘scam’ but during his campaign last year he was persuaded of its value, especially as an investment for the Trump family

2025-03-08
Trump was regaling donors at Mar-a-Lago about all his administration was doing for the crypto industry when he turned to a more personal element: all the crypto money he is making as president. He marveled at how much $ his memecoin could bring in and asked the audience if they
2025-03-08 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources detail how crypto flooded Trump with cash, including $50M+ in donations from at least eight execs, and how he is doing much of what the industry wants

The president had called cryptocurrency a ‘scam’ but during his campaign last year he was persuaded of its value, especially as an investment for the Trump family

Trump was regaling donors at Mar-a-Lago about all his administration was doing for the crypto industry when he turned to a more personal element: all the crypto money he is making as president. He marveled at how much $ his memecoin could bring in and asked the audience if they
2025-03-08 View on X
New York Times

The White House hosted its first Crypto Summit, bringing together top crypto executives, including Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss

The first-of-its-kind event at the White House with top crypto executives showcased the president's embrace of the once-renegade industry.

Bo Loudon, an 18-year-old friend of Barron Trump, has touted his connections in calls with cryptocurrency executives seeking access to the Trump family. In one call, he said it would cost tens of thousands of dollars to keep him on retainer. https://www.wsj.com/...
2025-03-08 View on X
New York Times

The White House hosted its first Crypto Summit, bringing together top crypto executives, including Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss

The first-of-its-kind event at the White House with top crypto executives showcased the president's embrace of the once-renegade industry.

Bo Loudon, an 18-year-old friend of Barron Trump, has touted his connections in calls with cryptocurrency executives seeking access to the Trump family. In one call, he said it would cost tens of thousands of dollars to keep him on retainer. https://www.wsj.com/...
2025-03-08 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources detail how crypto flooded Trump with cash, including $50M+ in donations from at least eight execs, and how he is doing much of what the industry wants

The president had called cryptocurrency a ‘scam’ but during his campaign last year he was persuaded of its value, especially as an investment for the Trump family

2025-02-13
NEWS w/@AnnieLinskey: Elon Musk's X has agreed to pay about $10 million to settle a lawsuit that Trump brought against what was then Twitter and its former CEO. https://www.wsj.com/...
2025-02-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: X agrees to pay ~$10M to settle Trump's 2021 lawsuit against Twitter and then-CEO Jack Dorsey over the ban on his accounts after the January 6 riot

Musk's platform becomes second social-media company to settle with Trump after Jan. 6, 2021 riot triggered bans

Trump's team considered letting the lawsuit fizzle out, given Musk's proximity to the president and the fact that he spent $250 million dollars to help elect him. But they ultimately moved forward despite Trump and Musk's close relationship. https://www.wsj.com/...
2025-02-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: X agrees to pay ~$10M to settle Trump's 2021 lawsuit against Twitter and then-CEO Jack Dorsey over the ban on his accounts after the January 6 riot

Musk's platform becomes second social-media company to settle with Trump after Jan. 6, 2021 riot triggered bans

2025-01-30
In January, Zuckerberg returned to Mar-a-Lago for a full day of mediation. Trump was in and out, stepping out at one point to be sentenced in the hush money case, and reappearing later in golf clothes and talking about the round he had just played. https://www.wsj.com/...
2025-01-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Meta agrees to pay ~$25M to settle Trump's 2021 lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg after the company suspended his accounts following the January 6 riot

The president had sued the social-media company after his accounts were suspended  —  President Trump has signed settlement papers …

2024-11-23
Musk has escalated from targeting government agencies to singling out individuals—sparking his online army of followers to launch blistering critiques of ordinary federal employees. W/⁦@jimcarltonsf⁩ https://www.wsj.com/...
2024-11-23 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Elon Musk, as Trump's efficiency czar, is singling out ordinary federal staffers, including some with climate-related jobs, on X and unleashing his fans on them

As Trump efficiency czar, the billionaire is targeting employees by name on X—sparking pushback  —  Unlimited access across all platforms and devices.

2024-10-25
Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin since late 2022. At one point, Putin asked him to avoid activating his Starlink satellite internet service over Taiwan as a favor to Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Big @WSJ scoop: https://www.wsj.com/...
2024-10-25 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Vladimir Putin since late 2022; Putin asked Musk to not activate Starlink in Taiwan as a favor to Xi Jinping

Regular contacts between world's richest man and America's chief antagonist raise security concerns; topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters

2024-06-12
Incredible reporting by @joe_palazzolo @khadeeja_safdar on Elon Musk's boundary-blurring relationships w/women at SpaceX, including asking one to have his babies. Among the wild details: these texts Musk sent an employee/former intern inviting her over: https://www.wsj.com/... [image]
2024-06-12 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources and documents detail how Elon Musk blurred boundaries with female employees at SpaceX, including having sex with an employee and a former intern

The billionaire founder had sex with an employee and a former intern, and asked a woman at his company to have his babies

2024-05-30
Elon Musk, along with the billionaire investor Nelson Peltz, has briefed Trump on a plan they've developed to invest in a data-driven project to prevent voter fraud. https://www.wsj.com/...
2024-05-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Elon Musk and Trump talk many times a month on topics like a government role, action on “voter fraud”, and X; Musk is organizing friends against Biden