President Donald Trump avoided all questions around the ballooning Jeffrey Epstein controversy while signing a cryptocurrency bill he said was named after himself.
Trump refused to take questions from reporters before and after signing the Genius Act in the White House on Friday afternoon. The Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act establishes the first-ever federal rules for stablecoins, which are cryptocurrencies linked to the US dollar.
‘The Genius Act, they named it after me,’ joked Trump.
It was his only public event of the day.
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