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Zach Witkoff
Zach Witkoff is an American businessman and co-founder of the cryptocurrency firm World Liberty Financial (WLF). Early life and education Witkoff is the son of real estate investor and lawyer Steve Witkoff and lawyer Lauren Rappoport. He attended the University of Miami. Career Witkoff co-founded WLF in 2024, and is 60% owned by the Trump family. The firm established the stablecoin USD1, pegged to the United States Dollar, and as of May 2025 has become the fifth largest stablecoin. Witkoff's business transactions with Abu Dhabi state-backed MGX Fund Management Limited attracted scrutiny as a result of his father's role as 1st United States Special Envoy to the Middle East. Personal life In 2022, Witkoff married actress Sophi Knight at a ceremony at Mar-a-Lago, attended by Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis Ronald Dion DeSantis (; born September 14, 1978) is an American politician, attorney, and former United States Navy, naval officer serving as the 46th List of governo ...
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University Of Miami
The University of Miami (UM, UMiami, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a private university, private research university in Coral Gables, Florida, United States. , the university enrolled 19,852 students in two colleges and ten schools across over 350 academic majors and programs, including the Miller School of Medicine in Health District (Miami), Miami's Health District, the University of Miami School of Law, law school on the main campus, the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science on Virginia Key, and additional research facilities in southern Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County. The University of Miami offers 151 undergraduate, 149 master's, and 68 doctoral degree programs. With over 20,000 faculty and staff as of 2024, the University of Miami is the second-largest employer in Miami-Dade County. The university's main campus in Coral Gables spans , has over of buildings, and is located southwest of Greater Downtown Miami, downtown Miami, the heart ...
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World Liberty Financial
World Liberty Financial is a decentralized finance protocol and cryptocurrency company founded in 2024. It has been noted for directly advertising its connection with Donald Trump and his family. A ''New York Times'' investigation described it as "eviscerating the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in a manner without precedent in modern American history". It has been involved in multiple controversies regarding its conflicts of interest, alleged secret deals, and business with individuals under criminal investigation and with criminal records. One of World Liberty's few publicly known investors is Chinese billionaire Justin Sun; shortly after Trump took office in 2025, Sun invested $30 million into World Liberty and subsequently a SEC investigation into Sun was dropped. A firm associated with the Abu Dhabi government invested $2 billion into World Liberty in 2025. History In September 2024, Trump announced that his sons would enter the crypto marketplace ...
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Steve Witkoff
Steven Charles Witkoff (born March 15, 1957) is an American real estate investor and lawyer who has served as the Ambassadors of the United States#Special envoys, representatives, and coordinators, United States Special Envoy to the Middle East since 2025. He is the founder and chairman of the Witkoff Group. Steve Witkoff was born in the Bronx and raised on Long Island. He graduated with a B.A. in political science and a J.D. from Hofstra University. Witkoff began his career as a real estate attorney, before transitioning to property investment and development. His notable acquisitions include the Daily News Building, the Woolworth Building, 33 Maiden Lane, and the Park Lane Hotel (Manhattan), Park Lane Hotel in Manhattan. As of May 2025, the The World's Billionaires, Forbes World's Billionaires List estimated Witkoff's net worth at US$2 billion. During the first presidency of Donald Trump in 2020, Witkoff was a member of the Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups, whi ...
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Witkoff Group
Steven Charles Witkoff (born March 15, 1957) is an American real estate investor and lawyer who has served as the United States Special Envoy to the Middle East since 2025. He is the founder and chairman of the Witkoff Group. Steve Witkoff was born in the Bronx and raised on Long Island. He graduated with a B.A. in political science and a J.D. from Hofstra University. Witkoff began his career as a real estate attorney, before transitioning to property investment and development. His notable acquisitions include the Daily News Building, the Woolworth Building, 33 Maiden Lane, and the Park Lane Hotel in Manhattan. As of May 2025, the Forbes World's Billionaires List estimated Witkoff's net worth at US$2 billion. During the first presidency of Donald Trump in 2020, Witkoff was a member of the Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups, which were created to combat the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. In November 2024, then President-elect Dona ...
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Trump Family
The Trump family is the prominent wealthy family of US president Donald Trump. The family is of Bavarians, Bavarian Germans, German and Scottish people, Scottish descent. They are active in business, entertainment, politics, and real estate. Prominent members such as the President's grandfather Friedrich Trump and his father Fred Trump are grouped here. Immediate family Wives Ivana Trump Ivana Marie Trump (née Zelníčková), the first wife of Donald Trump, was born on February 20, 1949, in Zlín, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic, Czechia). She was a fashion model and businesswoman who became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1988. They were married from 1977 until 1990. Ivana died of Blunt trauma, blunt impact injuries to the torso after falling down stairs at her home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Ivana was a senior executive of the Trump Organization for seven years, including executive vice president for interior design. She led the interior design of Trump ...
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Stablecoin
A stablecoin is a type of cryptocurrency where the value of the digital asset is supposed to be pegged to a reference asset, which is either fiat money, exchange-traded commodities (such as precious metals or industrial metals), or another cryptocurrency. In theory, 1:1 backing by a reference asset could make a stablecoin value track the value of the peg and not be subject to the radical changes in value common in the market for many digital assets. In practice, stablecoin issuers have yet to be proven to maintain adequate reserves to support a stable value, and there have been a number of failures with investors losing the entirety of the (fiat currency) value of their holdings. Background Stablecoins have several purported purposes. They can be used for payments and are more likely to retain value than highly volatile cryptocurrencies. In practice, many stablecoins have failed to retain their "stable" value. Stablecoins are typically non-interest bearing and therefore do no ...
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Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi is the capital city of the United Arab Emirates. The city is the seat of the Abu Dhabi Central Capital District, the capital city of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, and the UAE's List of cities in the United Arab Emirates, second-most populous city, after Dubai. The city is situated on a T-shaped island, extending into the Persian Gulf from the central-western coast of the UAE. Abu Dhabi is located on an island in the Persian Gulf, off the Central West Coast. Most of the city and the Emirate reside on the mainland connected to the rest of the country. , Abu Dhabi's urban area had an estimated population of 2.5 million, out of 3.8 million in the emirate of Abu Dhabi. The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is headquartered in the city, and was the Sovereign wealth fund#Largest sovereign wealth funds, world's 3rd largest sovereign wealth fund in 2022. Abu Dhabi itself has over a trillion US dollars worth of assets under management in a combination of various List of coun ...
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MGX Fund Management Limited
MGX Fund Management Limited (MGX) is an Emirati state-owned investment firm for artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Established by the government of Abu Dhabi in 2024, MGX aims to become a vehicle for AI-driven investments with a target of managing US$100 billion in assets. History MGX was established in 2024 by the government of Abu Dhabi to channel investments into AI-driven technologies and startups and to foster innovation and drive economic growth within the region. MGX was launched in March by two entities: global investment company Mubadala and an artificial intelligence firm G42. MGX's board chair is Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Khaldoon Al Mubarak is the vice chair. In September 2024, MGX, BlackRock, and Microsoft announced the ''Global AI Infrastructure Investment Partnership'', an AI investment fund that will focus on data centers and their power infrastructure. In January 2025, MGX partnered with OpenAI and Oracle on the Stargate Project. In M ...
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Ambassadors Of The United States
Ambassadors of the United States are persons nominated by the president to serve as the United States' diplomatic representatives to foreign nations, international organizations, and as ambassadors-at-large. Under Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, their appointment must be confirmed by the United States Senate; while an ambassador may be appointed during a recess, they can serve only until the end of the next session of Congress, unless subsequently confirmed. Ambassadors are the highest-ranking diplomats of the U.S. and are usually based at the embassy in the host country. They are under the jurisdiction of the Department of State and answer directly to the secretary of state; however, ambassadors serve " at the pleasure of the President", meaning they can be dismissed at any time. Appointments change regularly for various reasons, such as reassignment or retirement. An ambassador may be a career Foreign Service officer (career diplomatCD) or a politic ...
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Mar-a-Lago
Mar-a-Lago ( , ) is a resort and National Historic Landmark on a barrier island in Palm Beach, Florida, United States. It spans 126 rooms and built on of land. Since 1985, it has been owned by Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States. Mar-a-Lago was built for the businesswoman and socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post between 1924 and 1927, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s, Florida land boom. At the time of her death in 1973, Post bequeathed the property to the National Park Service, hoping it could be used for state visits or as a Winter White House. However, because the costs of maintaining the property exceeded the funds provided by Post, and because it was difficult to secure the facility, the property was returned to the Post Foundation by act of Congress 96-586 on December 23, 1980. In 1985, Donald Trump, primarily a businessman and real estate investor at the time, acquired Mar-a-Lago and used it as a residence. In 1994, he converted it ...
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Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021. Born into a wealthy family in the New York City borough of Queens, Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics. He became the president of his family's real estate business in 1971, renamed it the Trump Organization, and began acquiring and building skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. He launched side ventures, many licensing the Trump name, and filed for six business bankruptcies in the 1990s and 2000s. From 2004 to 2015, he hosted the reality television show ''The Apprentice (American TV series), The Apprentice'', bolstering his fame as a billionaire. Presenting himself as a political outsider, Trump won the 2016 United States presidential e ...
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Ron DeSantis
Ronald Dion DeSantis (; born September 14, 1978) is an American politician, attorney, and former United States Navy, naval officer serving as the 46th List of governors of Florida, governor of Florida since 2019. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served from 2013 to 2018 as the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. representative from . DeSantis was a Ron DeSantis 2024 presidential campaign, candidate for the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries, 2024 Republican presidential nomination, withdrawing his candidacy in January 2024. After graduating from Yale University and Harvard Law School, DeSantis joined the United States Navy, U.S. Navy in 2004 and was promoted to Lieutenant (navy), lieutenant before serving as a United States Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps, legal advisor to SEAL Team One. He was stationed at Joint Task Force Guantanamo in 2006 and was Iraq War troop surge of 2007, deployed to Iraq in 2007. When DeSantis return ...
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