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 "ledger": "money",
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "origin": "https://innercircleledger.com/money/",
 "license": "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Free to reuse, including commercially, with attribution to The Inner Circle Ledger and to the sources cited in each row.",
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   "id": "kremlev-trump-jr-wedding",
   "name": "Russian oligarch pays for Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding celebrations",
   "date": "2026-05-01",
   "kind": "Gift from a foreign national",
   "counterparty": "Umar Kremlev, president of the International Boxing Association, paying through IB Challenger, an IBA-affiliated entity in Dubai",
   "amount": "Hundreds of thousands of dollars (ProPublica); exact total not disclosed",
   "link": "ProPublica reported, citing records and three people familiar with the event, that Kremlev paid for part of Donald Trump Jr.’s May 2026 wedding weekend in the Bahamas, including rental of one of the two private islands, where the reception was held, and a fireworks show, and that his team helped plan the event. Trump Jr. and his wife confirmed that Kremlev hosted two nights of celebrations after the ceremony and described it as a wedding gift. ProPublica reported that Putin awarded Kremlev the Order of Friendship the month before the wedding, that Ukraine has sanctioned him over his closeness to Putin, and that the IBA has been financed by Russia’s state-owned Gazprom. Kremlev does not appear on public U.S. sanction lists, ProPublica said.",
   "record": [
    "ProPublica reported that the reception island can rent for around $100,000 a night and that the fireworks company charges around $70,000 for such a show. Kremlev did not attend the ceremony, held on the first day of the three-day event, which had 18 guests, according to Trump Jr.’s spokesperson; ProPublica dated the last night of the celebrations to May 24.",
    "Trump Jr. shared a stage with Kremlev at an IBA panel in Istanbul in September 2025; his spokesperson told ProPublica he was not paid for the appearance. In January 2025 Kremlev sent an open letter asking President Trump to look into the International Olympic Committee’s actions against the IBA.",
    "Reported September 14, 2026. Month-precision date (first of the month). The Ledger has not seen the payment records ProPublica reviewed."
   ],
   "response": "A spokesperson for Trump Jr. did not dispute the payments, described Kremlev as a personal friend met through a mutual friend in the hunting world, and said the two have no business relationship. Trump Jr. and Bettina Trump said in an Instagram statement that the celebrations were a generous wedding gift from a friend and objected to the event being recast as political. Kremlev’s press office said the two have a friendly relationship, that he has never discussed political matters with Trump Jr., that the IBA itself did not incur wedding expenses and that its Gazprom sponsorship expired long ago. The White House did not respond to ProPublica.",
   "status": "Reported; acknowledged by Trump Jr.",
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    {
     "title": "Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin",
     "publisher": "ProPublica",
     "url": "https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-jr-wedding-bankrolled-russian-oligarch-umar-kremlev-putin",
     "date": "2026-09-14",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "Donald Trump Jr. And Wife Defend Lavish Wedding ‘Gift’ From Russian Oligarch",
     "publisher": "Forbes",
     "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2026/09/14/donald-trump-jr-and-wife-defend-lavish-wedding-gift-from-russian-oligarch/",
     "date": "2026-09-14",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    }
   ],
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   "id": "trump-tower-tbilisi",
   "name": "Trump Tower Tbilisi, on land bought from an Ivanishvili family fund",
   "date": "2026-09-15",
   "kind": "Licensing and development",
   "counterparty": "A Georgian consortium of Archi Group, Biograpi Living, Blox Group and Finvest Georgia, with the U.S.-based Sapir Organization (Eurasianet)",
   "amount": "Licensing fee not disclosed",
   "link": "The Trump Organization licensed its name to the developers; The Wall Street Journal, as reported by JAMnews, said Georgian investors signed the branding agreement with Eric Trump at Mar-a-Lago in May 2026. The Journal reported that the developers bought the site in 2023 from a fund controlled by the family of Bidzina Ivanishvili, the Georgian Dream founder whom the U.S. sanctioned in 2024, and, citing Georgian corporate records, that the deal was worth up to $85 million and was completed in July 2026. The Daily Beast, citing the Journal, identified the seller as the Cartu Foundation and reported that Ivanishvili is not officially involved with it and that the family members who run it are not under sanctions.",
   "record": [
    "The project was launched in Tbilisi on September 15, 2026 at an event attended by Georgian government and ruling-party officials, the president of the National Bank and the prosecutor general. Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said it would draw $2 billion in investment, with a 62-floor tower due in 2031 (JAMnews). The Trump Organization announced the tower in April 2026 as 70 stories (Eurasianet).",
    "Archi Group’s founder, Ilia Tsulaia, is a former Georgian Dream member of parliament (Eurasianet). The Journal reported that he joined a 2025 Georgian delegation to Washington seeking better relations with the new administration and discussing sanctions (JAMnews).",
    "The Ledger has not seen the Georgian corporate records or the licensing terms."
   ],
   "response": "The Trump Organization says its business is run independently of the administration and denies any conflict of interest (The Wall Street Journal, via JAMnews). In a video address to the launch, Eric Trump said his father supports the project (JAMnews). The cited September reports include no White House response.",
   "status": "Launched September 15, 2026; tower completion planned for 2031",
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    {
     "title": "Wall Street Journal: New Trump Tower to be built in Georgia as country draws closer to Russia",
     "publisher": "JAMnews",
     "url": "https://jam-news.net/trump-tower-in-georgia/",
     "date": "2026-09-15",
     "kind": "Reporting"
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    {
     "title": "Trump Tower project unveiled in Tbilisi",
     "publisher": "JAMnews",
     "url": "https://jam-news.net/trump-tower-presentation-in-tbilisi/",
     "date": "2026-09-16",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "Trump Tower Deal Hands $85M to Sanctioned Oligarch’s Family",
     "publisher": "The Daily Beast",
     "url": "https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tower-tbilisi-deal-hands-85m-to-sanctioned-georgian-oligarch-bidzina-ivanishvilis-family/",
     "date": "2026-09-15",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "Georgian government gets US president’s attention with Tbilisi tower deal",
     "publisher": "Eurasianet",
     "url": "https://eurasianet.org/georgian-government-gets-us-presidents-attention-with-tbilisi-tower-deal",
     "date": "2026-04-22",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    }
   ],
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   "id": "aryam-world-liberty-stake",
   "name": "Aryam Investment 1 buys 49% of World Liberty Financial",
   "date": "2025-01-16",
   "kind": "Equity sale",
   "counterparty": "Aryam Investment 1, an Abu Dhabi entity backed by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE national security adviser",
   "amount": "$500 million",
   "link": "Signed by Eric Trump four days before the inauguration and not disclosed until The Wall Street Journal reported it on January 31, 2026. Half was paid up front, sending about $187 million to Trump-family-controlled entities and tens of millions more to co-founders including relatives of envoy Steve Witkoff.",
   "record": [
    "Executives of G42 helped manage the vehicle and took World Liberty board seats. Within months the administration committed to granting the UAE access to hundreds of thousands of advanced AI chips a year.",
    "Fortune, citing the president’s disclosure, reported nearly $263 million net to Trump from the sale."
   ],
   "response": "World Liberty said the deal had “no connection” to chips policy. The White House says there are no conflicts of interest and that Trump has no involvement in family business deals.",
   "correction": "An earlier version said The Wall Street Journal reported the stake in February 2026. It reported it on January 31, 2026. Corrected September 18, 2026.",
   "status": "Reported; not previously disclosed",
   "people": [
    "donald-trump",
    "eric-trump"
   ],
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    {
     "title": "UAE ‘Spy Sheikh’ bought secret stake in Trump crypto company: WSJ",
     "publisher": "CNBC",
     "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/01/spy-sheikh-stake-trump-crypto.html",
     "date": "2026-02-01",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "UAE Sheikh secretly acquired 49% of Trump’s World Liberty Financial days before inauguration: WSJ",
     "publisher": "The Block",
     "url": "https://www.theblock.co/post/387931/uae-sheikh-secretly-acquired-49-of-trumps-world-liberty-financial-days-before-inauguration-wsj",
     "date": "2026-02-01",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "UAE-backed investor took 49% stake in Trump-linked crypto firm for $500M",
     "publisher": "Cointelegraph",
     "url": "https://cointelegraph.com/news/uae-backed-firm-buys-49-percent-trump-linked-world-liberty-wsj",
     "date": "2026-02-01",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "Inside Trump’s $1.4 billion crypto empire",
     "publisher": "Fortune",
     "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/07/01/inside-trumps-1-4-billion-crypto-empire-altcoins-bitcoin-strategy/",
     "date": "2026-07-01",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "How the Trump family’s business deals could open the door for future presidents to profit from office",
     "publisher": "PBS NewsHour (Associated Press)",
     "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-the-trump-familys-business-deals-could-open-the-door-for-future-presidents-to-profit-from-office",
     "date": "2026-04-13",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company",
     "publisher": "The Wall Street Journal (Wayback Machine capture)",
     "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260201021819/https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/spy-sheikh-secret-stake-trump-crypto-tahnoon-ea4d97e8",
     "date": "2026-01-31",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    }
   ],
   "url": "https://innercircleledger.com/money/aryam-world-liberty-stake/",
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   "id": "mgx-binance-usd1",
   "name": "Abu Dhabi fund pays for Binance stake in World Liberty’s stablecoin",
   "date": "2025-05-01",
   "kind": "Stablecoin transaction",
   "counterparty": "MGX, a UAE state-backed fund, and Binance",
   "amount": "$2 billion in USD1",
   "link": "The investment in Binance was settled in USD1, the stablecoin issued by the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial, which earns yield on the reserves backing the tokens. Binance’s founder later received a pardon (see the Pardon Ledger).",
   "record": [
    "The value of USD1 in circulation reached about $2.1 billion on April 30, 2025, Reuters reported, citing CoinMarketCap data. Month-precision date. MGX and Binance announced the $2 billion investment in March 2025, CNBC reported; World Liberty co-founder Zach Witkoff announced in May 2025 that it would be closed in USD1, Reuters reported."
   ],
   "response": "World Liberty dismissed the notion of a conflict, saying the UAE deal had no connection to the president’s chips policy, AP reported. Zhao’s lawyer denied any link between Binance’s business ties and the pardon.",
   "correction": "An earlier version said the $2 billion investment was announced in May 2025. MGX and Binance announced it in March 2025; World Liberty’s co-founder said in May that it would be settled in USD1. Corrected September 18, 2026.",
   "status": "Completed",
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     "title": "How the Trump family’s business deals could open the door for future presidents to profit from office",
     "publisher": "PBS NewsHour (Associated Press)",
     "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-the-trump-familys-business-deals-could-open-the-door-for-future-presidents-to-profit-from-office",
     "date": "2026-04-13",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "What to know about Trump’s pardon of Binance’s founder",
     "publisher": "Time",
     "url": "https://time.com/7328278/what-to-know-about-trumps-pardon-of-binances-founder/",
     "date": "2025-10-23",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "Trump’s stablecoin chosen for $2 billion Abu Dhabi investment in Binance, co-founder says",
     "publisher": "Fox Business (Reuters)",
     "url": "https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/trumps-stablecoin-chosen-2-billion-abu-dhabi-investment-binance-co-founder-says",
     "date": "2025-05-02",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "Binance secures ‘largest investment ever’ in crypto as Abu Dhabi’s MGX pledges $2 billion",
     "publisher": "CNBC",
     "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/13/abu-dhabis-mgx-to-invest-2-billion-in-crypto-exchange-binance.html",
     "date": "2025-03-12",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    }
   ],
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   "id": "trump-memecoin",
   "name": "$TRUMP memecoin royalties and the top-holder dinner",
   "date": "2025-01-17",
   "kind": "Token income",
   "counterparty": "Retail and large buyers of the $TRUMP token, including crypto investor Justin Sun",
   "amount": "More than $635 million in royalty income (Fortune, citing Trump’s financial disclosure)",
   "link": "The token launched days before the inauguration. AP reported about $320 million generated in the first four months and a gala dinner for the biggest holders, at which Sun, a foreign citizen, got access to Trump.",
   "record": [
    "The token later fell roughly 90 percent from its highs. Trump announced a further dinner for top holders in 2026."
   ],
   "response": "The White House spokesperson said “there are no conflicts of interest” and that assets sit in a trust managed by Trump’s children.",
   "correction": "An earlier version said Fortune’s figure came from Reuters. Fortune cited Trump’s financial disclosure. Corrected September 18, 2026.",
   "status": "Ongoing income stream",
   "people": [
    "donald-trump"
   ],
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Inside Trump’s $1.4 billion crypto empire",
     "publisher": "Fortune",
     "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/07/01/inside-trumps-1-4-billion-crypto-empire-altcoins-bitcoin-strategy/",
     "date": "2026-07-01",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "How the Trump family’s business deals could open the door for future presidents to profit from office",
     "publisher": "PBS NewsHour (Associated Press)",
     "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-the-trump-familys-business-deals-could-open-the-door-for-future-presidents-to-profit-from-office",
     "date": "2026-04-13",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "Trump launches his own $TRUMP meme coin, price soars overnight",
     "publisher": "CBS News",
     "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-launches-own-meme-coin-cryptocurrency/",
     "date": "2025-01-18",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    }
   ],
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   "id": "world-liberty-token-sales",
   "name": "World Liberty Financial governance-token sales",
   "date": "2025-03-01",
   "kind": "Token income",
   "counterparty": "Token buyers including Justin Sun",
   "amount": "About $2 billion raised in 2025 (AP); almost $600 million to Trump’s entities through World Liberty in 2025 (Fortune)",
   "link": "Sun spent $75 million on the tokens between the election and the inauguration. A federal securities lawsuit against Sun was paused after the inauguration and later settled for a $10 million fine.",
   "record": [
    "Co-founders are Trump, his three sons, Steve Witkoff and Witkoff’s two sons. Fortune also reported nearly $197 million to Trump through DT Marks SC, which owns 38.5 percent of Stablecoin Holdco. Month-precision date: World Liberty said in March 2025 that its token sales had reached $550 million (CNBC).",
    "CoinDesk reported on September 14, 2026 that onchain records show a wallet that moved 15.75 billion WLFI into a vesting contract on May 19, 2026 kept 14.175 billion after a required 10 percent burn, the amount disclosed as Trump’s founder allocation, and that the contract sets a two-year cliff followed by three years of vesting, so none of it can unlock before May 2028. CoinDesk valued the stake at about $800 million at the current WLFI price; it identified the wallet by that match and said the owners of the other five participating wallets could not be identified from blockchain data. A World Liberty spokesman told CoinDesk that co-founders face the strictest conditions and the longest vesting schedule of any holders. Forbes reported on September 15, 2026 that World Liberty sold nearly $2 billion of tokens and equity in 2025, sending nearly $800 million of proceeds to the president."
   ],
   "response": "The Trump Organization says it is fully compliant with ethics and conflict-of-interest laws and that the implication that politics has enriched the Trump family is unfounded. Sun said “today’s resolution brings closure”; the SEC said he and his companies did not admit or deny wrongdoing (Reuters).",
   "correction": "An earlier version said roughly $600 million in income went to Trump, and reported $197 million to DT Marks SC from a 38.5 percent stake. Fortune reported almost $600 million to Trump’s entities through World Liberty in 2025, and nearly $197 million to Trump through DT Marks SC, which owns 38.5 percent of Stablecoin Holdco. Corrected September 18, 2026.",
   "status": "Ongoing",
   "people": [
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    "donald-trump-jr"
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    {
     "title": "How the Trump family’s business deals could open the door for future presidents to profit from office",
     "publisher": "PBS NewsHour (Associated Press)",
     "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-the-trump-familys-business-deals-could-open-the-door-for-future-presidents-to-profit-from-office",
     "date": "2026-04-13",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "Inside Trump’s $1.4 billion crypto empire",
     "publisher": "Fortune",
     "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/07/01/inside-trumps-1-4-billion-crypto-empire-altcoins-bitcoin-strategy/",
     "date": "2026-07-01",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "Trump’s World Liberty Financial crypto project says it sold $550 million in tokens",
     "publisher": "CNBC",
     "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/17/trump-world-liberty-financial-crypto-sold-550-million-in-tokens.html",
     "date": "2025-03-17",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "Justin Sun Settles SEC Fraud Case for $10 Million",
     "publisher": "Insurance Journal (Reuters)",
     "url": "https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2026/03/06/860761.htm",
     "date": "2026-03-06",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "Trump's $800 million stake into World Liberty Financial's token now has a timeline to becoming sellable",
     "publisher": "CoinDesk",
     "url": "https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/09/14/trump-s-usd800-million-stake-into-world-liberty-financial-s-token-now-has-a-timeline-to-becoming-sellable",
     "date": "2026-09-14",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "President Trump’s Fortune Falls As Everyday Supporters Lose Faith",
     "publisher": "Forbes",
     "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2026/09/15/president-trumps-fortune-falls-as-everyday-supporters-lose-faith/",
     "date": "2026-09-15",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    }
   ],
   "url": "https://innercircleledger.com/money/world-liberty-token-sales/",
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   "id": "american-bitcoin",
   "name": "American Bitcoin goes public",
   "date": "2025-09-01",
   "kind": "Equity",
   "counterparty": "Hut 8 (joint-venture partner and majority owner) and public shareholders",
   "amount": "About $1 billion in paper wealth for the Trump brothers at listing",
   "link": "Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. back the mining and treasury company, formed by combining most of Hut 8’s mining business with American Data Centers. The listing came months after the president signed an order creating a national bitcoin reserve.",
   "record": [
    "The stock later fell about 90 percent from its highs. Month-precision date."
   ],
   "response": "The Trump Organization told AP it is “fully compliant with all applicable ethics and conflicts of interest laws” and that “the implication that politics has enriched the Trump family is unfounded.” The White House said the president has “no involvement” in family business deals. Fortune reported in September 2025 that Eric Trump has disputed concerns raised by ethicists and Democrats about the family’s crypto ventures and has said he does not talk with his father about his business ventures. Fortune’s February 2026 report includes no response.",
   "correction": "An earlier version said the president’s announcement of a national bitcoin reserve sent the price of bitcoin to a record. It did not, and that claim has been removed. The listing came months after the president signed the order creating the reserve. Corrected September 18, 2026.",
   "status": "Listed; value down sharply",
   "people": [
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    "donald-trump-jr"
   ],
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "How the Trump family’s business deals could open the door for future presidents to profit from office",
     "publisher": "PBS NewsHour (Associated Press)",
     "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-the-trump-familys-business-deals-could-open-the-door-for-future-presidents-to-profit-from-office",
     "date": "2026-04-13",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "The Trump family’s crypto portfolio is getting battered with the rest of the industry",
     "publisher": "Fortune",
     "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/02/09/trump-family-crypto-portfolio-american-bitcoin-melania-memecoin-world-liberty-financial/",
     "date": "2026-02-09",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "Bitcoin plunges as Trump’s strategic reserve fails to impress markets",
     "publisher": "Al Jazeera",
     "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/3/7/bitcoin-plunges-as-trumps-strategic-reserve-fails-to-impress-markets",
     "date": "2025-03-07",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "Hut 8, Eric Trump to launch bitcoin mining company",
     "publisher": "Reuters via Yahoo Finance",
     "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hut-8-eric-trump-launch-113034735.html",
     "date": "2025-03-31",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "Trump-backed crypto firm American Bitcoin notches $5 billion valuation in Nasdaq debut",
     "publisher": "Fortune",
     "url": "https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/09/03/american-bitcoin-nasdaq-trading-eric-donald-trump-jr-hut-8/",
     "date": "2025-09-03",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    }
   ],
   "url": "https://innercircleledger.com/money/american-bitcoin/",
   "named_people": [],
   "fec": []
  },
  {
   "id": "qatar-golf-project",
   "name": "Qatar golf club and villa project",
   "date": "2025-04-30",
   "kind": "Licensing and development",
   "counterparty": "Dar Global, a private developer, per CNBC; the project sits within the Simaisma development led by Qatari Diar, a state-controlled company established by Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund",
   "amount": "$5.25 million in licensing income on Trump’s 2025 financial disclosure, per CNBC",
   "link": "One of eight foreign deals the Trump Organization completed in just over a year of the second term, against zero in the first term.",
   "record": [
    "AP reported the project is being developed in part by a company owned by the Qatari government. CNBC reported that the Trump Organization’s licensing agreement was with a private developer and that Dar Global and Qatari Diar announced the project on April 30, 2025."
   ],
   "response": "The Trump Organization says it has no direct deals with foreign governments.",
   "correction": "An earlier version dated the project to June 2025, listed the counterparty as a company owned by the Qatari government and said the amount was not disclosed. The project was announced April 30, 2025; CNBC reports the licensing deal is with Dar Global, a private developer, within a development led by the state-controlled Qatari Diar, and Trump’s 2025 disclosure lists $5.25 million in licensing income. Corrected September 18, 2026.",
   "status": "Announced",
   "people": [
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    "eric-trump"
   ],
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "How the Trump family’s business deals could open the door for future presidents to profit from office",
     "publisher": "PBS NewsHour (Associated Press)",
     "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-the-trump-familys-business-deals-could-open-the-door-for-future-presidents-to-profit-from-office",
     "date": "2026-04-13",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "Trump’s foreign licensing business booms to $59.5 million as Gulf developers pay",
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   "name": "Trump resort in Vietnam",
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   "amount": "A $5 million brand-licensing fee paid to the Trump Organization, per regulatory filings and a source familiar with the deal (Reuters), for a $1.5 billion project",
   "link": "AP, citing The New York Times, reported Vietnam’s government pushed farmers off land for the project. Reuters reported Vietnam fast-tracked approvals as it negotiated a trade deal with Washington.",
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    "Reuters reported that Vietnamese authorities approved the project in May 2025, the week before Vietnam’s prime minister and Eric Trump held a groundbreaking ceremony on May 21. Month-precision date (first of the month)."
   ],
   "response": "The Trump Organization denied direct business with the government.",
   "correction": "An earlier version listed the Vietnamese government as a counterparty and said the amount was not disclosed. Reuters reports that the developer is Kinhbac City and its partners and that the Trump Organization was paid a $5 million brand-licensing fee; AP reported that Vietnam’s deputy prime minister signed off on the deal. Corrected September 18, 2026.",
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     "title": "How the Trump family’s business deals could open the door for future presidents to profit from office",
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     "title": "Fistful of dollars and rice for Vietnam farmers displaced for US$1.5 billion Trump golf club",
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     "title": "Trump Organization breaks ground on $1.5 billion golf club in Vietnam",
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     "date": "2025-05-21",
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   "name": "Saudi Arabia: Trump Plaza and a Riyadh collaboration",
   "date": "2026-01-01",
   "kind": "Licensing and development",
   "counterparty": "A Saudi developer close to the ruling family, and a company owned by the Public Investment Fund chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman",
   "amount": "The Trump Organization’s fees for these projects are not given in the cited reports; Dar Global’s chief executive told Reuters the Jeddah and Riyadh projects together are valued at about $10 billion (Middle East Eye)",
   "link": "A Red Sea resort branded Trump Plaza, then a January 2026 collaboration for mansions, a hotel and a golf course outside Riyadh with a sovereign-wealth-fund company.",
   "record": [
    "Month-precision date for the Riyadh announcement."
   ],
   "response": "Asked about Trump Plaza and its other foreign projects, the Trump Organization told AP it had done no deals with governments so far, noting that the Saudi company was private. Asked whether the Riyadh project broke its pledge not to strike deals with foreign governments, it said it does not “conduct business with any government entity” but did not address that project specifically.",
   "correction": "An earlier version quoted the Trump Organization as saying it does not “conduct business with any government entity” and did not address the project. Asked by the Associated Press about Trump Plaza and its other foreign projects, the company said it had done no deals with governments so far, and noted that the Saudi company involved is private. Corrected September 18, 2026.",
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     "date": "2026-04-13",
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    {
     "title": "Trump Organization and Saudi developer unveil $10bn in projects",
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     "date": "2026-01-12",
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   "name": "Stakes in an armed-drone maker",
   "date": "2026-03-01",
   "kind": "Equity",
   "counterparty": "A drone company seeking Pentagon and Gulf-state contracts (not named in the cited report)",
   "amount": "Stakes worth millions to Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.",
   "link": "The company is seeking contracts with the Pentagon and with Gulf states under attack by Iran and dependent on the U.S. military, according to AP.",
   "record": [
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   "correction": "An earlier version said the company sells to Gulf states. AP reported that it is seeking contracts with the Pentagon and with Gulf states. Corrected September 18, 2026.",
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     "title": "How the Trump family’s business deals could open the door for future presidents to profit from office",
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     "date": "2026-04-13",
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   "id": "crypto-income-total",
   "name": "The total: $1.4 billion in reported crypto income, per NBC News",
   "date": "2026-07-01",
   "kind": "Review",
   "counterparty": "Multiple, per the president’s financial disclosure",
   "amount": "$1.4 billion",
   "link": "Fortune, citing the president’s financial disclosure released by the Office of Government Ethics: $635 million-plus in memecoin royalties, about $600 million through World Liberty Financial, $197 million to DT Marks SC, more than $150 million in income from ether, more than $56 million from USDC, more than $33 million from bitcoin, and a stake in Michael Saylor’s Strategy.",
   "record": [
    "Forbes put Trump’s net worth at $6.3 billion in early 2026, up about 60 percent from before his return to office.",
    "Trump told The New York Times in January 2026: “I found out that nobody cared, and I’m allowed to,” which the AP said alluded to the president’s exemption from the federal conflict-of-interest statute.",
    "Forbes’s 2026 Forbes 400 estimate, published September 15, 2026, put Trump’s net worth at $7 billion, $300 million less than a year earlier, estimated that the $TRUMP memecoin delivered more than $600 million to him in trading fees and token sales, and said his liquid assets rose from $1.1 billion to $1.9 billion after taxes. On September 15, 2026 the Senate failed to reach the 60 votes needed to advance the Clarity Act (National Law Review). CoinDesk reported on September 14 that the bill’s ethics section would impose restrictions on crypto ties for many federal officials, including the president, and that White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt said Trump had accepted further limits that could force him to put his investments into blind trusts; Senate Banking Committee Democratic staff said the new version left Trump’s appointees, especially the attorney general, too much authority to shut down enforcement of the ethics section."
   ],
   "response": "The White House says Trump acts in an “ethically-sound manner” and that contrary suggestions are ill-informed or malicious.",
   "correction": "An earlier version said Fortune cited Reuters for these figures. Fortune cited the president’s financial disclosure. Corrected September 18, 2026.",
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     "title": "Inside Trump’s $1.4 billion crypto empire",
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     "title": "How the Trump family’s business deals could open the door for future presidents to profit from office",
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     "date": "2026-04-13",
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     "title": "Trump’s financial disclosure lists $1.4 billion in crypto earnings, powered largely by meme coins",
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     "date": "2026-06-30",
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     "title": "President Trump’s Fortune Falls As Everyday Supporters Lose Faith",
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     "date": "2026-09-16",
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     "kind": "Reporting"
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     "title": "Failure Of Crypto Clarity Act Cloture Vote Not A Surprise",
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     "date": "2026-09-16",
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   "name": "Qatar’s Boeing 747-8 for use as Air Force One",
   "date": "2025-05-21",
   "kind": "Gift to the government",
   "counterparty": "The government of Qatar",
   "amount": "Aircraft valued at about $400 million",
   "link": "The Pentagon accepted the 13-year-old royal-family jet a week after reports that Qatar was offering it for Trump’s use. Trump said in May 2025 that the plane would go to his presidential library after his term, AP reported. In August 2026, a White House official told ABC News “no final decision has been made yet” on its future after he leaves office.",
   "record": [
    "The Air Force said it would award a classified contract to convert the jet. Democrats in Congress questioned whether the gift was lawful under the Emoluments Clause, NPR and Defense News reported. Lawmakers of both parties raised security concerns; Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said on CNBC that the plane posed “significant espionage and surveillance problems.”"
   ],
   "response": "Trump called the gift “a great thing” and, before it was accepted, said it “helps us out” because the presidential planes he flies on are decades old. The Defense Department said it accepted the aircraft in accordance with federal rules.",
   "correction": "An earlier version misquoted Trump as saying Qatar handed over the plane “so they could help us out.” The entry now quotes what he said. Corrected September 18, 2026.",
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     "date": "2025-05-21",
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     "title": "WATCH: Asked about Qatar’s gift of luxury 747, Trump says ‘We give free things out, we’ll take one, too’",
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     "title": "Sen. Ted Cruz: Qatar’s plane poses ‘significant espionage and surveillance problems’",
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     "title": "Turning Qatari 747 into Air Force One could cost $1 billion and take years, experts say",
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   "name": "ABC, Meta and Paramount settle Trump’s lawsuits",
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   "counterparty": "ABC News (Disney), Meta Platforms, Paramount Global",
   "amount": "$15 million, $25 million and $16 million, mostly directed to Trump’s presidential library",
   "link": "Three companies paid to end Trump’s suits, including the ABC and “60 Minutes” suits, which most legal experts cited by NPR and CBS News considered weak: ABC over a George Stephanopoulos statement (December 2024), Meta over the 2021 account suspensions (January 2025; $22 million to the library), and Paramount over a “60 Minutes” edit (July 2025), while Paramount awaited federal approval of its merger with Skydance.",
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   "response": "Paramount said the lawsuit was “completely separate from and unrelated to the Skydance transaction and the FCC approval process,” and co-CEO George Cheeks told shareholders that legal costs, the risk of an adverse judgment and possible business disruption were reasons to settle, NBC News reported. CBS News reported that Paramount had maintained the suit was without merit. ABC News said it was “pleased that the parties have reached an agreement to dismiss the lawsuit,” the Associated Press reported. Meta did not comment but confirmed the Wall Street Journal’s report of the settlement, which said Meta did not admit wrongdoing, Forbes reported.",
   "correction": "An earlier version dated the Paramount settlement July 2, 2025, the date of the cited news reports. Paramount announced it late on July 1, 2025. Corrected September 18, 2026.",
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     "date": "2024-12-14",
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     "date": "2025-07-16",
     "kind": "Reporting"
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     "title": "Meta to Pay $25 Million to Settle 2021 Trump Lawsuit",
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   "name": "Corporate donors to the White House ballroom",
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   "counterparty": "About three dozen donors including Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Micron, Comcast, Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Coinbase, Ripple, Tether, the Winklevoss twins, the Lutnick family and the Adelson family",
   "amount": "At least $400 million (the administration’s latest estimate, per NBC News); individual donation amounts not disclosed by the White House",
   "link": "The Washington Post reported on a November 3, 2025, analysis by the watchdog group Public Citizen, which found that two-thirds of the 24 known corporate donors received federal contracts worth a combined $279 billion over the previous five years, and that 14 of the 24 face federal enforcement actions or had such actions suspended by the Trump administration. Fortune later reported that a Public Citizen analysis found 14 of 27 known corporate donors received more than $50 billion in new or expanded federal contracts in the six months after demolition of the East Wing began, led by Lockheed Martin (about $43.8 billion), with Palantir (over $1 billion) and Amazon ($255.7 million) among them.",
   "record": [
    "The East Wing was demolished to make room for the 90,000-square-foot ballroom. Fox News reported in January 2026 that corporations including Microsoft and Amazon, responding to inquiries from Senator Elizabeth Warren and other lawmakers, described how fundraisers approached them about donations. The report did not give donation amounts.",
    "NBC News reported on September 14, 2026 that the administration’s latest cost estimate is at least $400 million, that the White House has named no donors beyond its October 2025 list of 37 (Nvidia and Vantive Healthcare acknowledged donations on their own), and that donations are routed through the Trust for the National Mall, a tax-exempt nonprofit. NBC also cited the Public Citizen contracts analysis described above; the Ledger has not reviewed that analysis. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in late August 2026 to let the project move forward, NBC reported. The White House declined to comment to NBC."
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   "response": "Trump has said the ballroom is privately funded by himself and donors at no cost to taxpayers, CNN and CNBC reported. White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Fortune that critics are “alleging fake conflicts of interests” and that the donors are “contributing to make the People’s House better for generations to come.”",
   "correction": "An earlier version credited the $279 billion contracts figure to a Washington Post calculation and overstated a later Fortune report. Both figures come from Public Citizen analyses, which the entry now describes. Corrected September 18, 2026.",
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     "title": "Corporate Donors to Trump’s White House Ballroom Beset by Conflicts, Received $279 Billion in Government Contracts in the Past Five Years",
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     "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/warren-led-inquiry-draws-new-details-trump-ballroom-donations-from-major-corporations",
     "date": "2026-01-13",
     "kind": "Reporting"
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     "title": "Trump vowed to identify more of the donors to his ballroom project. That hasn’t happened yet.",
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     "date": "2026-09-14",
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   "name": "Trump Media raises $2.5 billion to buy bitcoin",
   "date": "2025-05-27",
   "kind": "Corporate treasury",
   "counterparty": "About 50 institutional investors",
   "amount": "$1.5 billion in stock and $1 billion in convertible debt",
   "link": "Trump is the largest shareholder of Trump Media, through a trust. CNBC called the bitcoin buildup the latest marker of the Trump family’s embrace of cryptocurrency, a pivot it said continues to grow his net worth while in office as he pursues pro-crypto policies, including a strategic bitcoin reserve. By July 2025 the company held about $2 billion in bitcoin.",
   "record": [
    "Shares fell about 10 percent on the announcement. Custody was placed with Anchorage Digital and Crypto.com, which also partnered with the company on exchange-traded funds."
   ],
   "response": "Trump Media described the treasury as a defense against discrimination by financial institutions.",
   "correction": "An earlier version said, in the Ledger’s own voice, that a bitcoin price rise driven partly by the administration’s pro-crypto policy flows to Trump’s net worth. The cited sources do not establish that causal chain. CNBC described the bitcoin buildup as the latest marker of the Trump family’s embrace of cryptocurrency, a pivot it said continues to grow his net worth while in office. Corrected September 18, 2026.",
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     "title": "DJT shares fall 10% as Trump Media says it’s raising $2.5 billion to buy bitcoin",
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     "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/27/djt-trump-media-bitcoin.html",
     "date": "2025-05-27",
     "kind": "Reporting"
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     "title": "Trump Media builds $2 billion bitcoin hoard, as cryptocurrency swells president’s net worth",
     "publisher": "CNBC",
     "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/21/trump-djt-bitcoin-net-worth.html",
     "date": "2025-07-21",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "Trump Media strikes $2.5 billion deal aimed at buying bitcoin tokens",
     "publisher": "CBS News",
     "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-media-bitcoin-2-5-billion-deal-heres-why/",
     "date": "2025-05-27",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    }
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   "name": "Foreign licensing income in 2025",
   "date": "2026-08-10",
   "kind": "Review",
   "counterparty": "Developers in the UAE (Damac and others), India, Saudi Arabia (Dar Global), Qatar and Oman",
   "amount": "$59.5 million in 2025, up 71 percent from 2024, per CNBC’s analysis of the disclosure (Forbes put it at $61 million, up an estimated 30 percent)",
   "link": "Per the president’s disclosure as analyzed by CNBC: $23 million from the UAE (through deals with two developers, per Forbes), $10 million from India, $9 million from Saudi Arabia and $5 million from Qatar. Forbes calculated the foreign licensing business grew about 900 percent as Trump returned to power; CREW counts 23 Trump-branded foreign projects in development during the presidency.",
   "record": [
    "Licensing fees are paid to Trump-owned entities for the use of the name. Per CNBC, the Trump Organization signed its Qatar and Oman licensing agreements with private developers rather than directly with foreign governments, but both projects rely on state-controlled land, investment or partners."
   ],
   "response": "The Trump Organization told CNBC it operates “completely separate from the presidency,” complies with ethics and conflict-of-interest laws and uses an outside ethics adviser. It did not respond to CNBC’s questions about specific projects or to Forbes’s questions. White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly told Forbes, “There are no conflicts of interest.”",
   "correction": "An earlier version gave foreign licensing income as $59.5 million in 2025, up 71 percent from 2024, without noting that published figures differ. That is CNBC’s analysis of the disclosure; Forbes put the total at $61 million, up an estimated 30 percent. Corrected September 18, 2026.",
   "status": "Disclosed income",
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   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Trump’s foreign licensing business booms to $59.5 million as Gulf developers pay",
     "publisher": "CNBC",
     "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/10/trump-foreign-real-estate-licensing-income-gulf-deals.html",
     "date": "2026-08-10",
     "kind": "Reporting"
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     "title": "Trump’s foreign licensing business grew 900% as he returned to power",
     "publisher": "Forbes",
     "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2026/07/08/trumps-foreign-licensing-business-grew-900-as-he-returned-to-power/",
     "date": "2026-07-08",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "Twenty-three Trump-branded real estate projects will be developed in foreign countries during Trump’s presidency",
     "publisher": "Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington",
     "url": "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/trump-foreign-development-tracker/",
     "date": "2026-01-15",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    }
   ],
   "url": "https://innercircleledger.com/money/foreign-licensing-income-2025/",
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   "id": "melania-amazon-documentary",
   "name": "Amazon licenses a Melania Trump documentary",
   "date": "2025-01-01",
   "kind": "Licensing deal",
   "counterparty": "Amazon (Jeff Bezos)",
   "amount": "$40 million",
   "link": "Agreed weeks after Bezos dined with the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago and after Amazon gave $1 million to the inaugural committee, while Amazon was defending the Federal Trade Commission’s 2023 antitrust suit. Rolling Stone reported that Amazon Web Services is a giant federal contractor and that Bezos’s Blue Origin has NASA contracts worth billions. Melania Trump is an executive producer, NBC News reported.",
   "record": [
    "The film was directed by Brett Ratner. Month-precision date; the deal was reported in January 2025. Donald Trump’s annual financial disclosure report covering 2025 listed $10.71 million in income to Melania Trump from the documentary, Business Insider reported. Earlier, Rolling Stone, citing The Wall Street Journal, reported that she kept roughly 70 percent of the fee, about $28 million."
   ],
   "response": "Amazon described the film as an unprecedented look at the first lady’s life. An Amazon MGM Studios spokesperson told Rolling Stone the studio had no ulterior motive. “We licensed the film for one reason and one reason only,” the spokesperson said, “because we think customers are going to love it.”",
   "correction": "An earlier version said the Trumps’ share of the fee was not disclosed. Business Insider reported that Donald Trump’s financial disclosure report covering 2025 listed $10.71 million in income to Melania Trump from the film; Rolling Stone, citing The Wall Street Journal, reported that she kept roughly 70 percent of the fee, about $28 million. Corrected September 18, 2026.",
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     "title": "Amazon is paying $40 million to license Melania Trump documentary",
     "publisher": "Rolling Stone",
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     "date": "2025-01-09",
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     "title": "Amazon to release Melania Trump documentary directed by Brett Ratner",
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     "url": "https://amp.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7423693",
     "date": "2025-01-06",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "Melania Trump made over $17 million from documentary, book sales, NFTs",
     "publisher": "Business Insider",
     "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/melania-trump-documentary-book-nfts-earnings-2026-7",
     "date": "2026-07-02",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
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     "title": "‘Chaos’: Behind the scenes of Amazon’s Melania Trump doc",
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     "url": "https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/melania-trump-documentary-amazon-behind-the-scenes-1235505208/",
     "date": "2026-01-26",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
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     "title": "Amazon Prime Video picks up Melania Trump documentary set for release this year",
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     "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/amazon-prime-video-picks-melania-trump-documentary-set-release-later-y-rcna186292",
     "date": "2025-01-05",
     "kind": "Reporting"
    },
    {
     "title": "FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power",
     "publisher": "Federal Trade Commission",
     "url": "https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/09/ftc-sues-amazon-illegally-maintaining-monopoly-power",
     "date": "2023-09-26",
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    }
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