Washing, the Democrats of Congress threatened demands, introduced legislation and planned protests in the period prior to the Memecoin dinner of US President Donald Trump.
Trump, whose affiliated businesses issued the $ Trump Memecoin only a few days before they opened it for his second term, announced that he would organize 220 larger headlines of his Token for dinner at the Trump National Golf Club in Potomac Falls, Virginia, on Thursday, which led to a price peak, since the interested parties bought more tokens to ensure an invitation.
Critics described the corrupt moan, pointing out the fact that foreign buyers who otherwise could not legally donate the money to the president were buying chips, as well as the opacity that surrounds their purchases: many of the dinner attendees are unknown, and some even pointed out the ability to maintain anonymity as a factor in their decision to go, according to the Washington Post.
The creator of Tron, Justin Sun, boasted to be the best support of the tab before dinner, with blockchain explorers suggesting that the wallet with the largest tenure of $ Trump is linked to HTX, an exchange of cryptography connected to Sun.
Legal action
Senator Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut Democrat who previously wrote open cards to two companies affiliated with Trump by asking about his cryptographic companies, he told reporters in a press call organized by the central control agency of the left responsible for Trump to “auctioned” access to the White House with Memecoin’s dinner.
“What is happening tonight … is indeed, put a sign of ‘for sale’ in the White House,” said Blumenthal. “Access is being auctioned. It is literally telling investors: ‘The more purchases of my memecoin, the greater the possibilities of coming to dinner with me.'”
Blumenthal suggested that a lawsuit could force Trump to meet at least some rules on foreign gifts or payments.
During the first presidency of Trump, Blumenthal and other members of the Congress sued Trump for allegedly violating the foreign emoluments clause of the Constitution of the United States, which prohibits public officials from taking gifts from foreign governments without the permission of the Congress. Although an appeal court finally rejected the lawsuit, Blumenthal said Thursday that he is ready to try again.
“If there were an authorization from Congress, the members would bring a lawsuit. I would be more than happy to do it. I would be anxious to do it,” he said.
Even if Congress does not authorize this, private groups, such as organizations of public interest, could also bring a lawsuit, which legislators could support through Amicus Briefs, he said.
“And essentially, the accusation would be that it is violating the provision of the Constitution of the United States that prohibits the payments or benefits of a foreign, plenipotentiary power,” he said. “It is specifically listed in the Constitution, unless it has consent with Congress and has no consent.”
New bills
The representative Maxine Waters, the Democrat of Classification in the Chamber Financial Services Committee, pressed a new bill on Thursday that again seeks to make the president’s cryptographic treatment explicitly be illegal. The legislation, labeled as trade, retention and unjust payments of the market in the 2025 crypto law, carefully appointed for the purposes of an acronym such as the Stop Trump in the Crypto Law, prohibits senior government officials and legislators to possess, control or serve as an officer of a cryptographic company or issuer of the token, and also of the operation of the digital active They have special knowledge for their knowledge of Crypt.
“Nowhere is Trump’s flagrant contempt and the lack of respect for the most obvious rule of law than in the way in which the presidency’s office has exploited to promote shaded and fraudulent cryptocurrencies that do not have a real value and have no real purpose that is not to fill their pockets,” Waters said in a statement when he announced the legislation.
A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comments on the reaction of the Democrats. During a press conference, the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump was “attending [the dinner] In his personal time. “
“It is not a White House dinner, it is not taking place here,” he said when asked if the White House would share the names of the attendees.
The Waters bill is substantially similar to the previous efforts of Senator Chris Murphy, a Connectic Democrat behind the Modern Emoluments Law and Malifabination Control (MEME), and representative Sam Liccardo, who also had a bill in the Chamber.
Democrats who protest Trump’s dinner, however, reveal further the party cryptography division. These are largely the same legislators who have maintained the opposition to cryptographic legislation, while another faction of the party recently joined the Republicans to advance a draft Stablecoin law in the Senate. His argument: Trump’s actions can be inappropriate, or even illegal, but the new legislation does not need to underline that point.
More protests
Democratic senators Elizabeth Warren, Jeff Merkley and Murphy held a press conference on Thursday afternoon along with consumer defense groups to denounce the president’s dinner plans. Legislators demand that Trump reveal the names of the attendees of the night.
“With wallets linked to foreigners, transactions impossible to track, and not allowed a press, the event raises alarming questions about foreign influence, national security and growing corruption in the heart of the Trump cryptographic empire,” they said in a statement announcing the press conference in the United States Capitol.
During the press conference itself, Warren, the main Democrat of the Senate Banking Committee, stopped in front of a podium with posters that said “released the guest list” and asking “who comes to dinner?”
“Tonight is the orgy of corruption,” Warren said at the press conference on Thursday. She highlighted Tron’s Sun’s expected assistance, saying that “it will be especially good at tonight’s dinner” after the stock exchange and values commission stopped its Tron application work under the Trump administration.
“Even if you release the names, it is still corrupt,” Murphy argued on Thursday, and added that at least share the assistant’s information “will show us who has bought access to him.”
“This president is operated by currencies, both literally and figuratively,” said Liccardo, who added that Trump’s statement to attend personal capacity can open it to legal positions.
Merkley would also join a night protest near the location of Gold-Club dinner, on the outskirts of Washington.
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Update (May 22, 2025, 19:20 UTC): Add information from the Senate Press Conference.
