{"id":17419,"date":"2026-01-08T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-family-crypto-company-applies-for-banking-charter-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:21:08","slug":"trump-family-crypto-company-applies-for-banking-charter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-family-crypto-company-applies-for-banking-charter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump family crypto company applies for banking charter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Liberty Financial (WLF), a cryptocurrency company founded and run by President Trump&#8217;s family, announced Wednesday it applied to become a national trust bank. In a Wednesday press release, WLF announced it had applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for a federal banking charter&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/business\/5677908-wlf-applies-national-trust-bank\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Liberty Financial (WLF), a cryptocurrency company founded and run by President Trump&#8217;s family, announced Wednesday it applied to become a national trust bank. In a Wednesday press release, WLF announced it had applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for a federal banking charter&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}