On this episode, Rhonda Colvin, James Hohmann, and JM Rieger take a closer look at President Donald Trump’s transformation from vocal crypto critic to now spearheading the U.S. government’s full-throated embrace of cryptocurrency and digital commodities.Trump’s new love of crypto was on full display during <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/07/trump-crypto-summit-white-house/?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=can-he-do-that" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">White House Crypto Summit on March 7</a>, led by crypto and artificial intelligence czar David Sacks. The Trump administration, along with tech industry leaders, touted deregulation, a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a Digital Assets Stockpile, executive orders and legislation.Plus, Sam Bankman-Fried lobbies for a pardon from prison on Tucker Carlson’s podcast and reaction to the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/03/13/trump-cdc-weldon-hearing/?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=can-he-do-that" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">White House’s surprise decision to withdraw their Center of Disease Control and Prevention nomination</a>, former congressman Dave Weldon, who found out as he was driving to the Capitol to testify.

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