{"id":27873,"date":"2026-05-07T19:14:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/trump-jr-defends-world-liberty-at-consensus\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T19:14:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:14:41","slug":"trump-jr-defends-world-liberty-at-consensus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/trump-jr-defends-world-liberty-at-consensus\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Jr. defends World Liberty at Consensus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">Donald Trump Jr. and Zach Witkoff took the main stage at Consensus Miami 2026 on Thursday to defend World Liberty Financial as the project fights a federal lawsuit from Justin Sun.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cn-block-summary-block_36ef05ffa64d10ca752f7b68c7286529\" class=\"cn-block-summary\">\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__nav tabs\">\n        <span class=\"tabs__item is-selected\">Summary<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trump Jr. and Witkoff appeared at Consensus Miami 2026 on Day 3 to make the case for World Liberty Financial.<\/li>\n<li>Justin Sun filed a federal lawsuit in late April accusing the project of freezing his tokens and stripping his voting rights.<\/li>\n<li>World Liberty Financial also faces scrutiny over a $500 million UAE-linked equity stake and a pending federal bank charter application.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .cn-block-summary --><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump Jr. and Zach Witkoff took the Consensus Miami 2026 main stage on Thursday, appearing together at a major crypto conference for the first time to defend World Liberty Financial. The appearance comes as the Trump-backed DeFi project faces its most significant legal challenge since launching in late 2024.<\/p>\n<p>In late April, Tron founder Justin Sun filed a federal lawsuit in California alleging that World Liberty froze his tokens, stripped his voting rights, and threatened to permanently burn his holdings. <\/p>\n<p>Witkoff responded publicly, calling the claims \u201centirely meritless\u201d and describing the suit as a \u201cdesperate attempt to deflect attention\u201d from Sun\u2019s own alleged misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What Consensus means for WLFI<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Consensus stage gives World Liberty Financial an opportunity to reframe its narrative in front of 20,000 attendees. The project has drawn sustained scrutiny beyond the Sun lawsuit. <\/p>\n<p>A Wall Street Journal report revealed earlier this year that an Abu Dhabi-linked entity acquired a 49% stake for $500 million days before Trump\u2019s inauguration, and Senator Elizabeth Warren subsequently called on the OCC to pause review of WLFI\u2019s bank charter application, citing conflicts of interest.<\/p>\n<p>World Liberty Financial launched its USD1 stablecoin on multiple chains and unveiled a tokenized real estate product in February tied to a Trump resort in the Maldives. WLFI currently trades around $0.08, more than 75% below its September 2025 peak.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump Jr. and Zach Witkoff took the main stage at Consensus Miami 2026 on Thursday to defend World Liberty Financial as the project fights a federal lawsuit from Justin&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27874,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27873\/revisions\/27874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}