US President Donald Trump was ordered to sit for a deposition in his defamation case against the BBC by 11 December.
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Trump ordered to sit for a BBC defamation deposition by 11 December, as he also preps a crypto-scam crackdown and an $8B farm relief program
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Attention
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What happened
US President Donald Trump was ordered to sit for a deposition in his defamation case against the BBC by 11 December. The court order for Trump's BBC deposition is being framed as the case 'boomeranging' and focusing on January 6. President Trump is to announce a crackdown on crypto scams targeting Americans.
+ 6 more in the evidence register ↓Why it matters
The week's most distinct tracked accounts are reacting to concrete US political news tied to Trump — a court-ordered deposition in his BBC defamation case, a promised crypto-scam crackdown, and a new $8B farm relief program — rather than to the memecoin itself. For a crypto-native audience the relevant thread is the promised crackdown on crypto scams targeting Americans, plus the recurring claim that 'Kimchi' made $40M on $TRUMP, which is being actively disputed on-chain. The $TRUMP token itself was nearly flat over the week (−2.16%), so the attention is political and narrative-driven, not price-driven.
Observed reaction
Steady, politically charged rather than market-driven. The tone across tracked posts is largely critical of Trump — the BBC deposition is framed as a legal setback ('boomeranging'), and the MAGA Inc. donor list is posted with open hostility ('crypto scum'). The crypto-scam crackdown announcement is treated as straight news. On the token, the mood is skeptical: two separate accounts spent the week trying to debunk the popular '$40M on Trump Coin' Kimchi narrative.
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Where it started and who carried it
- First seen
- Oct 18, 00:04 UTC by @genxdegenerate
- Accounts
- 49 tracked · 116 elsewhere on X
- Communities
- general ct (11), perps trading (9), memecoins solana (8), eth defi (6)
- Key accounts
- @polymarket, @acnewsitics, @kalshi, @berniesanders, @hormuzletter
Explainability
Evidence register
The court order for Trump's BBC deposition is being framed as the case 'boomeranging' and focusing on January 6.
[1]President Trump is to announce a crackdown on crypto scams targeting Americans.
[1]Trump announced an $8B Harvest Fuel Relief program to help farmers offset rising costs amid global supply disruptions.
[1]A list of documented crypto-industry contributors to MAGA Inc. ahead of the 2026 midterms names Foris DAX, Tools for Humanity (World), Ondo Finance, Paradigm Operations, Ava Labs, Strategy/MicroStrategy, MARA, BitGo, Exodus Movement, FalconX/Solios, HBAR Inc., Gala and Solana, among others.
[1]Kimchi did not make $40M on $TRUMP: replaying 90 swaps from the wallet @bubblemaps linked to him gives real profit of $6,248,903, and even selling all 418,919 TRUMP at the $73 top would be $30.6M.
[1]The claim that Kimchi made $40M from Trump Coin has no on-chain proof; he was reportedly paid $6M by Pumpfun and holds 75% of a pump.fun token's supply with over $29M profit in 12 hours.
[1][2]$TRUMP showed funding-rate spreads of 36.0% APR (TxFlow → PopDEX) and 32.8% APR (TxFlow → Variational).
[1]Around the midterms in 2 weeks, Trump could end the conflict and, if Republicans win, give $5,000 to each of their supporters.
[1]Angles
- Legal thread: what the BBC defamation deposition means for Trump's schedule and whether January 6 becomes central.
- Crypto-policy thread: the promised crackdown on crypto scams targeting Americans — what it might cover and who it hits.
- Political-money thread: the MAGA Inc. donor list and the crypto firms named in it ahead of the 2026 midterms.
- Memecoin-truth thread: the $TRUMP 'Kimchi $40M' story being replayed on-chain and coming out at $6,248,903.
In the playbook for Sat, Oct 31
Formats in use
Risks
- Unverified claim: the '$40M Trump Coin profit' for Kimchi is disputed — @scratcherrrr's on-chain replay puts it at $6,248,903; treat the $40M figure as an unverified account claim.
- Unverified claim: @unvint's report that Kimchi was paid $6M by Pumpfun and holds 75% of a pump.fun token's supply with $29M profit in 12 hours is a single-account claim, not confirmed.
- Likely coordinated shilling: the Kimchi/Pumpfun and pump.fun-token figures read as promotional narrative; no on-chain proof was offered by the accounts repeating them.
- The 'Trump to announce crackdown on crypto scams' item is a single sourced RT (@WatcherGuru) with no detail on scope or timing — treat the substance as unconfirmed.
- No financial advice or price prediction is offered here; the $TRUMP market data is shown only to check claims made in posts.
Observed content
Most-engaged posts
RT @BBCBreaking: US President Donald Trump ordered to sit for deposition in his defamation case against BBC by 11 December https://t.co/meIILTpwHyOpen on X →
RT @WatcherGuru: JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump to announce crackdown on crypto scams targeting Americans.Open on X →
RT @harrylitman: BREAKING: Court orders Trump to sit for a deposition in his lawsuit against the BBC. The whole case is boomeranging against him and coming to focus on January 6.Open on X →
RT @theunipcs: OVERTRADING October 10, 2025 i had what would become the single biggest one-day loss of my career i lost eight figures in minutes due to systemic failures on the biggest CEXs, and to this day, no one has taken accountability for what happened my losses made heaOpen on X →
RT @BrianMcDonaldIE: The mood among experts in Moscow tonight is that peace may be closer than at any point in the past four years. The proposed Article 5-style guarantees are, of course, not as big a deal as they sound (even the actual Article 5 itself doesn't automatically oblOpen on X →
RT @Cointelegraph: 🇺🇸 UPDATE: Trump announces an $8B Harvest Fuel Relief program to help farmers offset rising costs amid global supply disruptions. https://t.co/SQcIEDE1ucOpen on X →
RT @MastrXYZ: Here’s the list of crypto scum! After everything, parts of the crypto industry are still financing Trump’s political machine ahead of the 2026 midterms. I find it disgraceful. Here are the names behind documented contributions to MAGA Inc. in the current electionOpen on X →
589 days from Trump's truth social post "WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL RESET!!! President DJT" is 11/20/27 https://t.co/ySnY0pH5SWOpen on X →
History
Weeks this story made the report
- #5steadyTrump ordered to sit for a BBC defamation deposition by 11 December, as he also preps a crypto-scam crackdown and an $8B farm relief program
- #3risingSolana degens pile into $ELON 2028 and 'Official Barron Trump' after they appear under the official $TRUMP deployer wallet — researcher calls the 'same deployer' proof a LARP
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