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Trump would have been tricked into including XRP in the US cryptocurrency reserve
A message posted in March on social media announcing the president's plans to create a strategic cryptocurrency reserve apparently came from an employee of a lobbying firm linked to Ripple Labs.
According to reports, US President Donald Trump was manipulated by a lobbyist linked to Ripple Labs to announce that the token XRP would be part of his plans for a national cryptocurrency reserve.
According to a Politico report from May 8, an employee of the pro-Trump lobbyist, Brian Ballard, provided the president with the text of a social media post that he recommended writing, announcing a strategic cryptocurrency reserve for the US that would include
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. After he posted the message on his social media platform on March 2, Trump discovered that Ripple was one of Ballard's clients, which infuriated the president, who felt he had been used, Politico reported, citing two people familiar with the incident.
“He is not welcome in anything ever again,” Trump said, referring to Ballard, according to the report.
