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Someone stole over $21 million from the
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president's supporters and his wife in
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what I believe is the first ever
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presidential insider trading case. And
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I'm going to track down the person
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responsible in this video. You may have
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heard Melania Trump recently announced a
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memecoin, which is not great, but worse,
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it was heavily sniped, meaning frontr
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run by 24 secret wallets who made $100
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million in profit according to the
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Financial Times. And today we're going
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to prove why I believe at least $21
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million of that wasn't just early
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trading. It was insider trading from
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wallets which bought Melania coins
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before Melania Trump announced it
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existed. This is called sniping. By the
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way, in crypto, that's when you buy a
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coin before anyone else knows about it
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and sell it when it pumps. Now, usually
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this is done with bots within the first
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seconds of an announcement. But in this
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case, Melania's coin was bought before
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it was announced by these secret
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wallets. And my question is, how can
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that be? How did these traders know
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about Melaniacoin before it was
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announced?
Maybe because they had inside
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information.
Well, maybe. But the
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challenge is proving that. Proving they
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weren't just smart or lucky, but
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actually insider traded. And to begin my
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search for the truth here, I caught up
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one of the reporters for the Financial
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Times story. And you'll notice he stops
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just short of saying what we all expect.
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I asked him, "How do these people know
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about this coin?"
These are people
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spending by any measure significant sums
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of money on this. So when you're
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thinking about is this what what are
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these who are these people, the first
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thing to know is they're quite
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confident. One of our earlier stories on
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this sort of theme was the number of
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spam coins like that were instantly
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minted and sent to Trump in an attempt
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to like basically create a fake official
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uh Trump coins. So in that context,
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remember think about that like you're
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you're willing to spend $100,000 say on
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this thing in an environment where there
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are loads of fakes. So you have to know
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something. Surely you have to know
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something. So that's why we are like we
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think the the grounds for suspecting
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these people know something is about to
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happen that she's about to post
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endorsing is quite high, right? Seems
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obvious they knew something they
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shouldn't have. But can we prove they
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had insider information? If we're going
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to do that, we need to not just find
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Melania Sniper, prove who they are. We
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have to prove that they had access to
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insider information to make sure they
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weren't just a lucky trader. And so to
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find that, I know we need to now do some
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tracing. So, here's the list of the
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first 24 wallets who bought Melania
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pre-announcement. Now, my main question
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was initially, are any of these sniper
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wallets linked to any publicly known
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wallets? And the answer is yes. Two of
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the wallets immediately stuck out to us
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because we believe they're tied to
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Hayden Davis. Now, Hayden Davis, if you
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don't know, was recently involved in
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another presidential scandal with
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another president of Argentina, Javier
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Malay, with a memecoin called Libra. And
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Hayden later admitted to pulling out
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over a hundred million out of the coin,
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which he promised to give back in an
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interview with me, and then he sort of
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vanished, but not before revealing a
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single clue, a wallet that he owned. We
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know this because Hayden Davis decided
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to refund Dave Portoi of Bartool Sports.
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David had lost $5 million and Hayden
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wanted to pay him back on his losses. We
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have text messages published by Dave
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Portoi where Hayden calls this wallet my
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personal money which we can trace to
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Portoi and use it to find Hayden's
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personal money wallet by just looking at
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who refunded him. We're going to label
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this refund as coming from Hayden's
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personal wallet. And if you notice, that
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wallet is only a few hops away from two
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of our sniper wallets. A red flag. Now,
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before I go further, I want to say these
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It's a rather grim collection and it's
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our new disclaimer because it is a scary
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time to be reporting on scams if none of
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them ultimately get prosecuted.
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Nevertheless, this all brings us back to
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Hayden himself, who we're going to be
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tracing for insider trading. We have two
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Sniper wallets linked to his personal
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wallet which both bought Melania before
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the public launch, specifically seconds
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before launch. And we're going to go
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through the details of this because
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first the question is how much money did
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they really make? And I wanted to create
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a timeline for you. The first wallet,
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which spent $40,000 on Melania, bought 2
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minutes and 21 seconds before
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announcement, and it later made $2.5
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million in profit. The second wallet
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bought $800,000 of this memecoin 49
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seconds before the announcement and it
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made $18.5
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million in profit with both wallets
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starting to sell less than an hour after
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Melania had truththed about it and both
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fully sold out in less than 30 days.
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Now, the time frame of this is super
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important because the public was told on
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the website of Melania meme that the
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team tokens would be locked for the
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first 30 days. But apparently secret
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tokens who were purchased by people who
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worked with the team were not locked. We
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know this because Hayden Davis admitted
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himself to working with the Melania team
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on the launch and personally admitted to
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sniping it in an interview with me. Were
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you part of the Melania launch and was
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that sniped as well?
I mean, you're
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you're you're you're asking a question
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that's um it's just I mean, I'll answer,
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but it's uh factually going to put me in
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into a lot of danger. Um, which is fine.
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I'll answer. Um, I was part of it. Um, I
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think the the team did want to snipe it
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because of how big the snipe was on
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Trump's. But yeah, he kind of admits
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most of it, but at the time, we didn't
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know how damning this interview would
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turn out to be. For example, Hayden
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claimed that they were not the biggest
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sniper of this coin, for example. But
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that appears to not be true because, at
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least in terms of dollars spent,
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Hayden's team was the largest sniper.
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Hayden also told me that the Melania
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team didn't make any money from this
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drop, from the snipe, but it looks like
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someone did. Looks like it was either
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him or his team.
And we weren't the uh
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we we definitely weren't the big sniper.
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There was no money made from the Melania
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team on any we didn't take any liquidity
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out. Zero.
And obviously, that's a huge
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omission. Maybe it's true that Melania's
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team made no money, but someone made
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tens of millions. and that person worked
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with the Melania team. Or at least
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that's how it looks. Given how massive
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this allegation is, I didn't just want
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to rely on Hayden's word because it's
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connected to the president's wife. I
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didn't just want to rely on a single
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wallet either that Dave Portoi tweeted
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about. It's circumstantial. It's not
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bulletproof yet. I wanted to dig deeper
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and get more concrete evidence. So, I
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spoke with everyone around Hayden at the
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time, and I got access to insider text
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that happened the day of the Melania
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launch and at the time of the snipe.
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These have never been seen before. What
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I'm about to show you is a leaked group
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chat. And no, it's not about Houthy war
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plans. This is between Kelsier and
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Deuna. Kelsier is Hayden Davis's
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company, and Defy Tuna is the company
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owned by our source, who was helping
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with the Melania launch. You'll also see
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Gideon Davis, the COO of Kelsier. He's
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in this chat. And we also have Vlad
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Pausnikov, who worked for DeFi Tuna.
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He'll be important as well. Together,
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they're speaking about a job they're
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doing for the Melania coin marketmaking.
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This is all pre-announcement. Now,
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Gideon tells Vlad that he's going to get
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1% of the total Melania supply, saying,
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quote, "Let's cook." Vlad replies, 10
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million received Melania starting to
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create some pools. We can see on the
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blockchain that transaction comes from
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an official Melania team wallet and
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occurs before the announcement showing
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that this team really did work for the
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Melania team or with the Melania team.
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Our source says it was all for market
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making and quote as legit as it comes.
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Quote, "Nothing bad, just liquidity
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provision." So this confirms at least
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half of our story that Hayden Davis
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really did work with Melania's team. It
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shows they were insiders on this launch,
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having real business connections and
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insider knowledge of the coin's launch
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since they got the details early with
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this transaction. But that's not all we
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find in these texts because while
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marketing, Gideon Davis, Hayden's
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brother, makes an odd request to Vlad.
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He says, quote, "Need you to send 1.5
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million in Salana back for the other
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tokens we talked about. May not need you
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to do anything. Going to be tough at
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launch." Vlad says, "Okay, send address,
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please." Gideon provides it and asks for
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5,600 in Salana. They decide to make a
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test payment of one Salana and then send
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the rest. Gideon replies, "Received." We
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can trace the exact timing of this to
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the public payments on the blockchain
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and the address we were given. And this
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is all moments before Melania's public
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announcement. That wallet then sends
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$800,000
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in USDC to our sniper wallet only 30
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minutes before the public announcement.
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And then 49 seconds before it all
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happens, of course, this wallet then
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buys $800,000 worth of Melania
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pre-announcement and the rest is
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history. This shows Kelsier is directly
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connected to the sniping of Melania at a
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time when the public believes team
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tokens are locked. But of course, the
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sales started right away. And where do
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the profits go? Well, a lot of it goes
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to Hayden Davis's personal wallet
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through two bridges. Both snipers send
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their profits to what Hayden Davis
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described as his personal money wallet.
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which is why I've struggled to say
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whether this is Hayden's money or Kelsey
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or his company's money, his brother's
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money, because ultimately different
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players are talking here. But either
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way, this appears to be a very nasty
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case of insider trading at the expense
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of the president's supporters who, let's
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be clear, were the people who bought
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this and ultimately, in my view, got
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scammed. They were under the distinct
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impression that tokens owned by people
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on the team would be locked for 30 days.
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And yes, you could argue Hayden wasn't
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directly on the team that we know of. Or
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you could argue that he bought these off
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the open market, just ahead of everyone
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else, but the clear impression from the
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website is there wouldn't be insiders
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dumping on you, right, for at least 30
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days. And yet, that's exactly what
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happened. Now, for legal reasons, I have
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to state super clearly that I found no
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evidence that Melania Trump herself knew
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of this behavior, planned anything,
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profited. Instead, it appears that it's
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Kelsier, Hayden, and possibly his
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brother who orchestrated this or planned
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it. Obviously, these are serious
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allegations. So, I have tried for weeks
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to reach Hayden and his brother Gideon
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for comment. They haven't replied so
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far. I will update this story if they
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do. But without their public comment,
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all I can say is that my conclusions are
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not just based on public information on
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the blockchain. not only an interview
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directly with Hayden Davis himself. It's
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also based on insider information and
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texts that happened the day of launch
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and the day of the snipe. Now, just to
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be clear again, I don't claim that any
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of this is illegal. In fact, I believe
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quite the opposite. But I also think
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that there are unanswered questions here
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and that ultimately people who trusted
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this website which claimed these this
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30-day lockup, they got scammed. People
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who believed in a fair market that
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wasn't going to get frontr run by the
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team essentially got scammed. They were
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cheated by what I believe was insider
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trading on the president's wife's
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memecoin, which by itself is a mouthful.
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Now, I want to give a big thanks to not
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only the Financial Times, but also the
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crypto researcher Shady Oak, who helped
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me with blockchain tracing. If you want
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a flowchart of the basic allegations,
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I've included a link to that below. You
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can dive in if you want a more detailed
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explanation and investigation board into
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Kelsier's actions. We couldn't even
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include all of it. That's over on our
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Patreon. We'll also email a copy to
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anyone who buys our merch. And then
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finally, if you were in law enforcement
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and you think maybe this behavior is
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actually bad, I'll happily give you a
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courtesy copy of our full investigation
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on request. And that's it. I copied law
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enforcement. You're such a pathetic
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optimist. Don't forget, crime is legal.
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Copy. And we're riding the wave.
That's
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our disclaimer, but we've still got to
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try. Otherwise, what are we doing here?
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Rebelling against the dying light of our
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empire. What else?
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I don't know. It's really gotten
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depressing.
You're taking this all way
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too personally. The reality is nobody
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cares. You know that better than anyone.
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So, go home, relax, and don't get so
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worked up about it.
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Do you hear the words you say to me?
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I don't think you do.
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You're the first to answer questions.
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[Music]
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Bitmax led guilty to a range of charges.
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Three men issued pardons. He told me
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he's like, "I'm going to pardon you."
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And I was like, "Holy cow, are you
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serious?"
The SEC is formally dropping
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its lawsuit against Binance.
The entire
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crypto enforcement program at the SEC
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has been absolutely demolished. All the
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SEC investigations regarding crypto
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closed.
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[Music]
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Oh
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you.
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[Music]
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I've been watching you hide.
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I just close my eyes.
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I've known for a while.
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My dear, if you keep pulling that
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thread,
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[Music]
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I'll unravel your hand.
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