President Trump brushed off questions about the money he’s made while in office, saying his sons run his businesses and that he didn’t know about the lucrative crypto investments that netted him over a billion dollars.
“I’ve always made money,” he told CNBC, pointing to his past career. “I’m a business person. I’m a really good business person. I made money. I made a tremendous amount of money.”
Others invest his income, and he doesn’t know who they are, he noted.
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“I let people invest it. I don’t even speak to – I don’t even know who they are,” he said. “My son Eric handles it. I don’t talk to him about things such as this.”
Trump’s latest financial disclosure report showed he took in about $1.2 billion last year from various crypto holdings. He told CNBC he didn’t know about the investments.
“I didn’t. There’s nothing illegal with that. I could know,” he said, pointing out there is no legal requirement “to recuse yourself on every decision running the country that could have anything to do with you. It just isn’t feasible to do it.”
And he shrugged off a question about a possible conflict of interest.
“The way I view crypto is a little differently. We have to be at the top, otherwise China is going to take it over,” he said.
