EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump’s NFT Scam May Have Been Part of a January 6 Cover-Up

As bizarre as it sounds, the backstory to how Trump made $4.5 million on $99 NFTs in just twelve hours suggests it’s not only the NFTs that are scams, but even the purpose of the whole enterprise.

ABOVE: Donald Trump (left) and his “body man” Nick Luna (right).

{Note: While it was originally believed that Trump’s just-released NFT collection was not on the blockchain and therefore not properly speaking a collection of “NFTs,” Variety reports that the collection is indeed housed on the Polygon blockchain. This Proof report nevertheless denominates Trump’s superhero-themed “digital trading card” scheme a “scam” because no limited minting has been promised; some, possibly even all images used for the series appear to be stolen; the cost per “card” is over $100 (with fees) despite the website selling the cards declaring that they have “no investment value” and are for “entertainment only”; the cards do not depict what they are advertised to depict, that being “scenes” from Trump’s “life” (as almost none of the cards are in any way related to anything Trump has ever done); the claim that the collection comes with “thousands” of prizes is misleading, as this merely refers to the fact that some prize “winners” will be among “thousands” who get to be on a Zoom call with Trump in which—presumably—they will not be allowed to speak or interact with the former POTUS; and, as discussed below, all the companies involved in the collection appear to have suspicious and possibly illicit origins and associations.}

Introduction

In April 2021 in southern Florida, Donald Trump was hunkered down at (variously) his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, and his nearby golf club in West Palm Beach. He was awaiting the inevitable: the formation of a congressional January 6 investigation.

At the time, a January 6 investigation was thought most likely to take the form of a blue-ribbon bicameral, bipartisan commission, Indeed, just two and a half weeks or so after the end of April 2021, on May 19, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to form a commission to investigate January 6. Though Trump couldn’t possibly have known it in April, the commission would ultimately fail following a filibuster in the U.S. Senate. (The current bipartisan House special committee was formed in July.)

One of the members of Trump’s ever-narrowing inner circle spending time with him down in Florida following the January 6 coup attempt Trump helped orchestrate was apparently Trump’s longtime body man, Nick Luna. Luna had been Trump’s chief personal assistant on January 6, 2021, so if there was one thing Trump could have been certain of in April 2021 it was that Luna would be one of the first January 6 witnesses called by the United States Congress.

And if there was a second thing Donald Trump knew in April 2021, it was that Nick Luna could testify to a very, very great deal of what he—Trump—had said and done (or, as the case might be, not done and not said, though he should have) both on January 6 and in the critical hours and days leading up to the January 6 insurrection.

In fact, one can rather easily see that Luna—due to his minute-to-minute proximity to Trump while Trump was orchestrating what was arguably a Seditious Conspiracy, and because of the fact that Luna isn’t a politician who owes his political career to Trump (or has partial protection from subpoena, as do members of Congress, under the Speech and Debate Clause)—was in April 2021 one of the most enticing witnesses a DOJ or FBI or congressional investigator could possibly have imagined, indeed perhaps the most enticing of all potential January 6 witnesses. (Consider that we have already seen how Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide not to Trump himself but merely Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, almost immediately became the star witness of Congress’ entire January 6 investigation upon agreeing to testify under oath.)

So Trump, ensconced at Mar-a-Lago and at his nearby golf club, did what any man facing potential Seditious Conspiracy charges would do: he used his golf club address to make Luna, a young man in his early 30s, the head of a corporation that would, in time, use Trump’s name, image, and likeness to make Luna a very, very rich young man.

A Tale of Two Companies

As the New York Times reports, telling the story of how Trump came to be selling $99 “digital trading cards” in December of 2022 (right as the House January 6 Committee was finishing up its investigation of January 6),