Trump’s financial disclosure reveals $1 million in crypto and a lucrative side hustle with Bibles

Donald Trump made $300,000 for endorsing $60 Bibles with singer Lee Greenwood and owns more than $1 million in cryptocurrency, a new financial disclosure reveals.

The financial disclosure — a Federal Election Commission requirement for candidates pursuing federal office — showed that the former president made millions in royalties and owns a considerable amount in cryptocurrency, which he once decried as a “scam.”

One entry titled “cryptocurrency wallet virtual ethereum key” was valued between $1 million and $5 million. The investment shows his drastically shifting views on the digital currency in recent years.

After leaving office in 2021, Trump called Bitcoin a “scam.” He explained: “I don’t like it because it’s another currency competing against the dollar… I want the dollar to be the currency of the world.”

Meanwhile, in May of this year, his campaign announced it would accept cryptocurrency contributions as part of a wider effort to build a so-called “crypto army” before the November election.

The August 15 disclosure also revealed that the former president, who has compared himself to Jesus Christ, made a whopping $300,000 royalty payment for endorsing “The Greenwood Bible,” which he began promoting not long after being ordered to pay hundreds of millions from his civil fraud judgment.

The $60 Bible also includes the chorus to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” as well as the text of the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the Pledge of Allegiance.

Trump also made significant royalty payments from his books Letters to Trump and Our Journey Together, which raked in just under $5 million, the disclosure shows. The books retail for $90 and $50, respectively.

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