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Former President Donald Trump made no less than six figures of income selling NFTs last 12 months, his recent financial disclosure showed Friday.
NFTs, short for nonfungible tokens, are unique digital assets which have their ownership recorded on a digital ledger called a blockchain.
Trump has made between $100,001 and $1 million in income from NFTs, based on his 2022 financial disclosure form published by the watchdog group CREW.
Trump, currently a number one contender for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, was required to file the shape as a candidate for federal office, CREW noted.
Trump in December announced his first NFT collection — a series of digital “trading cards” featuring cartoon drawings of him in various heroic postures and outfits. One card, as an example, shows him in an area suit wearing sunglasses, while one other depicted him as a superhero shooting lasers from his eyes.
The previous president had teased the rollout of the $99 cards as a “major announcement,” stoking ridicule even from a few of his allies. However the series of 45,000 NFTs sold out in lower than a day, based on the web site that listed them.
Trump at that time had already announced his 2024 presidential campaign. But the location declared that the cards “usually are not political and don’t have anything to do with any political campaign.”
NFT INT LLC, the vendor of the cards, used Trump’s name and likeness under a paid licensing agreement through an organization called CIC Digital LLC, based on the location.
Trump also made greater than $5 million in income from speaking engagements through a similarly named company called CIC Ventures LLC, the disclosure shows.
