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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Feb 4, 2026, 03:24 PM 18 hrs ago

Olivia of Troye - Governance by Auction

I read this reporting twice. And then I sat with it.

Because once you strip away the crypto jargon, the shell companies, and the carefully lawyered denials, what’s left is something deeply unsettling—and profoundly dangerous for American governance.

Four days before Donald Trump was sworn back into office, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal with the Trump family to purchase 49% of a Trump-linked company for $500 million. Not a hotel. Not a licensing deal. A major ownership stake in a company tied directly to the sitting president’s family.

The buyer wasn’t just a foreign investor. It was Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan—the United Arab Emirates’ national security adviser, brother of the country’s president, and overseer of a vast intelligence, surveillance, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) empire that U.S. officials had already flagged as a national security risk.

https://www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com/p/governance-by-auction

Cyber currency is a form of money laundering.

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Olivia of Troye - Governance by Auction (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 18 hrs ago OP
Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the United Arab Emirates' national security advisor Goonch 17 hrs ago #1
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