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The latest hiccup in Trump’s crypto launch: Deleted posts and a hacking claim

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The X accounts of two family members of Donald Trump' appeared to have been hacked Tuesday in order to promote a scam aimed at cashing in on the Trump family's nascent crypto venture.

Donald Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump appeared to announce that the digital currency project, dubbed World Liberty Financial , had been launched.

A few minutes after Lara Trump's posts, her husband, Eric Trump , appeared to use his own X account to write "This is a scam!!".

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