Man, what is the world coming to when bribing President Donald Trump and his large adult sons doesn’t guarantee eternal peace and prosperity?
Crypto magnate Justin Sun is finding out, as he’s locked in a battle of dueling lawsuits with World Liberty Financial, the highest-profile Trump family crypto grift company.
Let’s all point and laugh at the richest, most coddled people in the world attempting to kick each other in the nuts over who, exactly, is the cheatsiest.
To understand why the honeymoon ended between Sun and the Trump sons, we have to rewind to just after the 2024 election, when Sun totally coincidentally decided to invest just a wee bit, a droplet, a mere $30 million in WLF.
That was a handy little investment, given that it resulted in Trump’s Securities and Exchange Commission dropping its fraud case against him.
Sun also attended Trump’s corrupt crypto dinner last spring, where you snagged a seat by purchasing millions in Trump’s worthless meme coin. After dropping another $40 million on that dinner, Sun swiftly became the Trump family’s biggest backer.
“As the top holder of $TRUMP and proud supporter of President Trump, it was an honor to attend the Trump Gala Dinner by @GetTrumpMemes,” Sun posted at the time.
In September 2025, Sun committed to purchasing another $100 million in meme coins—which is just a really complicated way of bribing the president and his family—and by March, Sun held some $700 million in tokens from WLF.
That’s when the love affair hit a rough patch.
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Last month, Sun sued WLF over … are you really going to make me explain the details of this crypto grift and how it fell apart? Fine.
First, Sun alleged that WLF tried to pressure him into investing even more of his millions into a stablecoin. No, I don’t really know what that is either, sorry. But after Sun refused to give the Trump family another “investment,” he says that they secretly froze his tokens, changing the rules to restrict who could sell their holdings when.
“There was no governance proposal (let alone a vote of token holders) on whether World Liberty should have this power, nor did World Liberty announce to token holders what the company was doing. World Liberty simply took the power for itself,” his complaint said.
The effect of this—for those of you who aren’t grifty crypto bros—was that Sun was blocked from selling his tokens when they became tradeable in September 2025.
Honestly, do I even need to say that the Trump family’s response was to sue Sun in return? And do I even need to say it was for defamation?
You can tell it’s a very real and serious lawsuit and not just a harassment tool by the fact that they posted it on X to whine that Sun had launched a “public smear campaign,” and that Sun was shorting their precious tokens and trying to “torch World Liberty Financial’s reputation.”
Buddy, what reputation?
The tokens have plummeted in value—no doubt in part because of sleazy little moves like the CTO of World Liberty using his WLF tokens to give loans to a different crypto platform he founded. Those tokens are down 81% over the last year and are currently trading around 6 cents, though this lawsuit jamboree gave it a temporary boost.
Now, Sun may be the wronged party here, but he’s no innocent babe in the woods. He happily bribed the Trump family to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars—but a protection racket requires that you keep paying.
Sorry, dude, but you definitely should have known better.
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