{"id":30052,"date":"2026-05-28T15:21:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/garlinghouse-says-trump-helped-crush-washingtons-anti-crypto-army\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T15:21:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:21:34","slug":"garlinghouse-says-trump-helped-crush-washingtons-anti-crypto-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/garlinghouse-says-trump-helped-crush-washingtons-anti-crypto-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Garlinghouse says Trump helped crush Washington\u2019s \u2018anti\u2011crypto army\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p>Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says the \u201canti\u2011crypto army\u201d has been beaten back by courts, voters, and President Donald Trump, arguing the crackdown never made legal, policy or political sense.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cn-block-summary-block_9ef85a1791d49cd1bfae9df729b0d3c0\" 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>Garlinghouse claims anti\u2011crypto forces lost in court, at the ballot box and in the Trump White House.<\/li>\n<li>Ripple\u2019s CEO links Trump\u2011era political support to a friendlier regulatory climate and the end of the SEC\u2019s XRP campaign.<\/li>\n<li>The comment comes as Washington advances new crypto legislation and XRP investors bet on a post\u2011enforcement cycle.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .cn-block-summary --><\/p>\n<p>Brad Garlinghouse did not mince words when he posted that the \u201cAnti\u2011Crypto Army was defeated\u2026 by the courts\u2026 by the voters. And by Trump,\u201d arguing that attacking digital assets \u201cnever made policy, legal or political sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The \u201cAnti-Crypto Army\u201d was defeated\u2026<br \/>by the courts\u2026<br \/>by the voters. <br \/>And by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>It never made policy, legal or political sense. <\/p>\n<p>Combatting financial innovation only helped protect those that wanted to keep an old, often broken, system in place. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W0VeGBxaYj\">https:\/\/t.co\/W0VeGBxaYj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brad Garlinghouse (@bgarlinghouse) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bgarlinghouse\/status\/2059996193384448313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In his view, attempts to \u201ccombat financial innovation only helped protect those that wanted to keep an old, often broken, system in place,\u201d a line that neatly captures how much of the industry now reads the last five years of American crypto policy.<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bgarlinghouse\/status\/2059996193384448313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The timing matters. After more than four years of litigation, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission agreed to drop its appeal in the XRP (XRP) case, with Ripple committing to pay a $50 million civil penalty instead of the $125 million originally on the table and the agency moving to lift an \u201cobey the law\u201d injunction that had hung over the company.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"from-courtroom-to-campaign-trail\">From courtroom to campaign trail<\/h2>\n<p>Garlinghouse has long framed the XRP lawsuit as a proxy battle over whether the U.S. would embrace or exile crypto innovation. IN a public note on Ripple\u2019s site he called the SEC\u2019s retreat a \u201chistoric victory\u2014for Ripple, our employees and customers, and for the entire crypto industry,\u201d while reiterating that Judge Analisa Torres\u2019s 2023 ruling that XRP \u201cin and of itself was not a security\u201d undercut the regulator\u2019s central theory.<\/p>\n<p>That legal turnaround collided with a political shift in Washington. Following Donald Trump\u2019s 2024 election win, crypto\u2011aligned super PACs and donors claimed credit for flipping key swing states, while industry advocates began touting an emerging \u201ccrypto voter\u201d bloc that punished candidates who backed Senator Elizabeth Warren\u2019s \u201canti\u2011crypto army\u201d rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>Garlinghouse has leaned into that narrative, publicly thanking Trump as XRP rallied and describing the token as the top\u2011performing major cryptocurrency over a 90\u2011day stretch into early 2025. According to one\u00a0crypto.news\u00a0report, XRP\u2019s upswing followed both the November election and Ripple\u2019s SEC settlement, underscoring how tightly price action, politics and enforcement are now intertwined in this market.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"xrp-clarity-and-the-next-regulatory-fight\">XRP, CLARITY and the next regulatory fight<\/h2>\n<p>Behind the victory lap is a legislative grind that will matter far more than a single White House photo\u2011op. Journalist Eleanor Terrett, whose post Garlinghouse quote\u2011tweeted, has tracked how Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno and other Republicans are pushing structural crypto bills, while the Trump administration presses Congress to pass the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act\u2014known as the CLARITY Act\u2014on an accelerated timeline.<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oHwS6SsXfxI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One widely circulated briefing suggested the White House set an informal March 1, 2026 deadline to line up the votes, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calling clear federal rules \u201cexactly what we need\u201d to stabilize volatile markets and give institutional capital permission to move. Closed\u2011door sessions with firms like Ripple and Coinbase have reportedly left Garlinghouse estimating a 90% chance that CLARITY will pass by April, which would lock in much of the court\u2011driven progress and codify how assets like\u00a0XRP\u00a0are treated in U.S. securities law.<\/p>\n<p>For XRP holders who \u201cwaited for the most godly green candle known to man,\u201d as one viral post on X put it, Garlinghouse\u2019s declaration that the \u201canti\u2011crypto army\u201d has been defeated is both vindication and provocation. In previous\u00a0crypto.news\u00a0coverage of the SEC fight and\u00a0crypto.news\u00a0analysis of the CLARITY push, the through line has been the same: U.S. crypto policy is no longer a technocratic sideshow but a front\u2011line political issue that can swing court cases, elections and hundreds of billions of dollars in token value.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Trump\u2019s team translates that into a coherent regulatory framework or just another slogan remains an open question, but Garlinghouse is already writing the first draft of the industry\u2019s victory narrative.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says the \u201canti\u2011crypto army\u201d has been beaten back by courts, voters, and President Donald Trump, arguing the crackdown never made legal, policy or political sense. 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