‘Everybody is profiting’: Trump dismisses questions about over $1bn in crypto earnings

While fielding questions from reporters ahead of his flight to North Dakota today, Donald Trump batted down questions about the $1.2bn he earned from crypto businesses, according to his latest annual financial disclosure.

“We have funds that run my money well. I’ve made a lot of money before I became president,” Trump said. “They’re big institutions, and they run it … I think it’s called a ‘blind account’, but they basically they take it, and I purposely I never speak to any of the people that run the money.”

Trump went on to say that “everybody is profiting” from the presidency, “because the stock market’s going up”.

He added: “So we’re all profiting. I’m profiting because I have a lot of money and a lot of cash, and I give it to institutions.”