63% of Americans Believe Trump Unjustly Profited from Cryptocurrency

About 6 in 10 Americans believe that U.S. President Donald Trump and his family are improperly profiting from cryptocurrency, a poll showed.

According to the results of a joint poll by Reuters and Ipsos released on the 19th local time, 63 percent of respondents answered "yes" to the question of whether it is inappropriate for Trump and his family to make money from cryptocurrency.

Those who answered "no" accounted to 32 percent, while 5 percent gave no response.

However, the responses were starkly divided along political lines.

Among registered Democrats, 92 percent viewed it as an unfair profit while 6 percent did not, whereas among Republicans, the figures flipped to 27 percent and 69 percent, respectively.

Among independents, 66 percent said it was an unfair profit and 25 percent said it was not.

The survey was conducted from the 14th to the 17th of this month among 1,166 adults, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

This public opinion comes as Democrats launch offensive campaigns raising allegations of corruption against President Trump ahead of the midterm elections in November.

Previously, President Trump reported earning a total of more than $1.4 billion (approx. 1.9 trillion won) from cryptocurrency ventures, including $588 million last year through his family's crypto firm, World Liberty Financial (WLF), and $636 million through his own meme coin, "$TRUMP".

Recently, CNN reported that World Liberty Financial obtained preliminary approval for a virtual asset bank charter from the U.S. government.

The survey also showed public skepticism toward President Trump's pro-crypto policies.

When asked whether Trump's business interests influence the decisions he makes as president, 69 percent of respondents answered yes.

Those who said no accounted for 27 percent.

On this question, nearly half of Republicans, 48 percent, answered yes, which was almost on par with those who said no at 51 percent.

Among Democrats, 90 percent answered yes and 9 percent no, while among independents, the figures were 69 percent and 23 percent, respectively.

Reuters projected that these anti-corruption offensives targeting President Trump could become a major variable in the election landscape.

However, the survey showed that 4 in 10 Democrats were "extremely angry" about bribery, making them more sensitive to corruption than Republicans, of whom about 1 in 4 expressed the same sentiment.

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