You start your story focused on Chased Hero. What can you tell about this guy? Yeah. So Chase is an unknown in the crypto world, but I dug into his career and he's been a marijuana dealer. He says he went to prison for that. He sold weight loss Colon cleanses online. He had a $149 a month. Get rich quick class. And then now he appears to be the main dealmaker behind World Liberty Financial, which is this defi startup the crux of the Trump's are promoting. And President Trump himself posted a video saying, you know, this is going to challenge the big banks. So it's really bizarre to see that this is the person they're partnering with. I'm sorry, the guy behind this defi project isn't even known in the crypto world. No. I mean, he calls himself in videos. He likes to call himself the dirt bag of the Internet. I found in another video, he said regulators should kick people like him

out of the industry and not in those words. He seems to have a very cynical, to say the least, attitude towards crypto and this project, World Liberty. You know, it might sound kind of impressive if you didn't know about crypto, but it appears to be kind of a copy of an existing project that didn't go anywhere and then lost a lot of money in a hack. Yeah, you're talking about the DOE project, right, dude? That seems to be what's got actually industry insiders, The crypto industry a little worried is ultimately that the people behind World Liberty Financial have come across from a much smaller project that didn't manage to raise that many funds and actually got hacked. Yes. And I mean, we don't know the details of all liberty. I obtained a white paper that lays out some of them, but I'm sure it's all subject to change. But this is supposed to be defi like decentralized finance.

The white paper says that 70% of the tokens will be reserved for insiders. So talking to people in crypto, they said this looks like it could be more of a cash grab than an innovative project. Okay. And therein lies the issue that this could be some sort of cash grab. Some of the details in your story, and that might hint that there's a slight difference in how this DeFi project is run compared to others, is that the people behind the overall project? Well, 70% of issued tokens, that's a lot. Yeah. And I mean, like, we're talking about this, like, I think we're talking about this even a little bit too seriously. Like, you should go. Go read what this guy says about crypto. I mean, I can't. I can't repeat it. The language, YouTube. This is a family TV channel, I guess. But, um, the way he talks about it

doesn't give you any confidence that this is a serious project that's going to challenge big banks. He says, basically you can sell utter rubbish and anyone will buy it in crypto. He happened to say that in a 2018 YouTube video recorded as he drove his Rolls Royce. Yes. And I mean, I'm digging deep to try and find his crypto resume. And I found that he appeared on influencer Logan Paul's podcast. And during the podcast, the two of them promoted a token called OMI, which I had also never heard of before. Since they promoted it a couple of years ago, it's down 96%. And another YouTuber, a scam-busting YouTuber named Koffi Zilla, posted this exposé that appeared to show the two of them coordinating ahead of the show. Their plan to talk about OMI. I mean, it seems that someone else listed in the white paper who's

responsible as operations lead used to run a service called Date Hottest Girls, where he taught seminars on how to pick up women. All of this just feels like a real risk ultimately, for the person who is running to be president of the United States again, to be associating himself with. Why do it? I mean, it's pretty bizarre. And the crypto industry, too. They the people I spoke to from it, are not happy about it. They like that Trump has flip-flopped and has endorsed crypto. He said that he is going to fire the head of the FCC and provide looser regulations that he says will make the U.S. the crypto capital of the world. They're like, That all sounds great. But then why are you starting this pretty silly sounding new venture, a for-profit venture just before the election? It almost discredits the AI raises questions about his motivations for deregulating the industry.

What has ultimately the World Liberty Financial spokespeople said to you? Have you tried to get in touch? What have they said ultimately about the real underlying necessity of this project? So I did contact them, and I received an email back from a man who said he was not a spokesperson, but then he spoke for World Liberty and said that he could see where I was going with all these questions. And it was painting an inaccurate portrait of this company and that. Time will tell that this is a serious project that's doing cool stuff. And Donald Trump has said he's going to unveil the details on Monday at 8 p.m. on Twitter spaces. So I guess we'll see if what he says is consistent with the white paper or if they've made some changes. I'll certainly be listening.

The ‘Dirtbag of the Internet’ and Trump's Crypto Project

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