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Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, Oct. 23, 2025

Published October 23, 2025 | Video Starts at 47:07

Binance has significant business interests with World Liberty Financial, the president's family's crypto company. How do you respond to the allegations from Democrats that this is a corrupt act? The previous administration was very hostile to the cryptocurrency industry. So the president wants to correct this overreach of the Biden administration's misjustice and he exercised his constitutional authority to do so and to the Democrats, I would just say … (47:07–47:12)

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