U.S. President Donald Trump wanted to take his apparent dislike of Bitcoin off Twitter and on to the regulatory level, according to former national security advisor John Bolton.
A June 18 article in Forbes about Bolton’s new book ‘The Room Where It Happened’ reveals Bolton heard Trump tell Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to “go after Bitcoin”. The conversation between Trump and Mnuchin was regarding trade sanctions and tariffs against China in May 2018...