{"id":558081,"date":"2026-02-19T12:30:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=793153"},"modified":"2026-02-19T12:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:30:38","slug":"donald-trump-jr-defends-crypto-pivot-as-shield-against-banking-ponzi-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/donald-trump-jr-defends-crypto-pivot-as-shield-against-banking-ponzi-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Jr. Defends Crypto Pivot as Shield Against Banking \u2018Ponzi Scheme\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/donald-trump-jnr-defends-crypto-pivot-as-shield-against-banking-ponzi-scheme-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>On Feb. 18, Donald Trump Jr. defended his family\u2019s pivot to cryptocurrency, describing it as a survival tactic against a \u201cPonzi scheme\u201d banking system that had deplatformed them. Mounting Political Scrutiny Donald Trump Jr. issued a defiant defense of his family\u2019s digital asset ventures on Wednesday, Feb. 18, characterizing their pivot to cryptocurrency as a [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Feb. 18, Donald Trump Jr. defended his family\u2019s pivot to cryptocurrency, describing it as a survival tactic against a \u201cPonzi scheme\u201d banking system that had deplatformed them. Mounting Political Scrutiny Donald Trump Jr. issued a defiant defense of his family\u2019s digital asset ventures on Wednesday, Feb. 18, characterizing their pivot to cryptocurrency as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":558082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-558081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}