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      "donald-trump"
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    ],
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      "trump-memecoin",
      "cic-digital-llc",
      "fight-fight-fight-llc"
    ],
    "event_type": "business",
    "headline": "$TRUMP memecoin launches days before the inauguration",
    "id": "event-2025-01-17-memecoin-launch",
    "lane": "business",
    "market_context": null,
    "precision": "date",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-reuters-memecoin-launch",
      "src-cbs-memecoins"
    ],
    "summary": "An entity linked to Donald Trump launched the Solana-based $TRUMP token on January 17, 2025; $MELANIA followed within days. Reporting on the token terms places 80% of supply with Trump-affiliated entities on a multi-year unlock.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
  },
  {
    "actors": [
      "donald-trump"
    ],
    "claim_ids": [
      "claim-access-media-settlements"
    ],
    "date": "2025-01-29",
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      "meta-platforms",
      "presidential-library-fund"
    ],
    "event_type": "settlement",
    "headline": "Meta agrees to pay $25 million to settle Trump's account-suspension lawsuit",
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    "lane": "business",
    "market_context": null,
    "precision": "date",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-npr-meta-settlement",
      "src-pbs-meta-settlement"
    ],
    "summary": "Meta settled the 2021 suit over the post–January 6 suspension of Trump's accounts; $22 million was directed to the presidential library fund, per reporting.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
  },
  {
    "actors": [
      "donald-trump"
    ],
    "claim_ids": [
      "claim-access-media-settlements"
    ],
    "date": "2025-02-12",
    "entities": [
      "x-corp"
    ],
    "event_type": "settlement",
    "headline": "X agrees to pay about $10 million to settle Trump's suspension lawsuit",
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    "lane": "business",
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    "precision": "date",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-nyt-x-settlement",
      "src-npr-x-settlement"
    ],
    "summary": "X (formerly Twitter) settled Trump's 2021 lawsuit over his account suspension for a reported amount in the range of $10 million.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
  },
  {
    "actors": [
      "justin-sun"
    ],
    "claim_ids": [
      "claim-crypto-sun-sec-stay",
      "claim-reg-sec-retreat"
    ],
    "date": "2025-02-26",
    "entities": [
      "securities-and-exchange-commission",
      "world-liberty-financial"
    ],
    "event_type": "enforcement",
    "headline": "SEC and Justin Sun jointly seek a stay of his civil fraud case",
    "id": "event-2025-02-26-sun-stay",
    "lane": "official",
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    "precision": "date",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-reuters-sun-sec-stay",
      "src-cnbc-sun-sec"
    ],
    "summary": "Weeks after Sun became World Liberty Financial's largest publicly known investor, the SEC and Sun filed a joint request for a 60-day stay of the 2023 civil fraud suit to explore a resolution.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
  },
  {
    "actors": [],
    "claim_ids": [
      "claim-reg-sec-retreat"
    ],
    "date": "2025-02-27",
    "entities": [
      "securities-and-exchange-commission"
    ],
    "event_type": "enforcement",
    "headline": "SEC moves to dismiss the Coinbase enforcement action with prejudice",
    "id": "event-2025-02-27-coinbase-dismissal",
    "lane": "official",
    "market_context": null,
    "precision": "date",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-sec-coinbase-dismissal",
      "src-nyt-sec-crypto-retreat"
    ],
    "summary": "The stipulated dismissal was part of a broader, documented reversal of the prior administration's crypto-enforcement posture.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
  },
  {
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      "donald-trump"
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    ],
    "date": "2025-03-06",
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      "white-house"
    ],
    "event_type": "policy",
    "headline": "Executive order formalizes the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and Digital Asset Stockpile",
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    "lane": "official",
    "market_context": {
      "instrument": "Named digital assets (BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, ADA)",
      "movement": "Reported immediate market-cap surge of roughly $100 billion or more in the named assets.",
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    },
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      "src-independent-strategic-reserve",
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    ],
    "summary": "Announced on Truth Social March 2 and formalized by executive order March 6, the action named BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, and ADA. Separate market reporting recorded an immediate surge in the named assets' prices; the timeline does not assign cause.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
  },
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      "donald-trump",
      "changpeng-zhao"
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      "claim-clem-zhao"
    ],
    "date": "2025-03-13",
    "entities": [
      "binance"
    ],
    "event_type": "business",
    "headline": "Reported Trump-family talks about a stake in Binance.US",
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    "lane": "business",
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    "precision": "date",
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    "summary": "Reuters, confirming WSJ reporting, reported that Trump-family representatives held talks about a financial stake in Binance's US arm — during the period when Binance founder Changpeng Zhao was seeking a pardon. No deal is reported to have been reached.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
  },
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      "donald-trump",
      "trevor-milton"
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      "claim-clem-milton"
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      "nikola-corporation",
      "department-of-justice"
    ],
    "event_type": "clemency",
    "headline": "Full pardon signed for Nikola founder Trevor Milton",
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    ],
    "summary": "The pardon ended Milton's 48-month fraud sentence and, per reporting, roughly $661 million in restitution owed to defrauded investors. Milton and his wife had donated about $1.8 million to Trump re-election efforts in October 2024.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
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      "donald-trump"
    ],
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      "claim-mt-april8-purchases",
      "claim-mt-april9-sequence"
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    "date": "2025-04-02",
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      "white-house"
    ],
    "event_type": "policy",
    "headline": "'Liberation Day' reciprocal tariffs announced",
    "id": "event-2025-04-02-liberation-day",
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      "instrument": "S&P 500",
      "movement": "Sharp multi-day decline followed the announcement.",
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    "summary": "Sweeping reciprocal tariffs on dozens of trading partners preceded a sharp multi-day market decline — the context for the April 8–9 sequence.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
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  {
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      "todd-blanche"
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      "claim-reg-ncet-disband"
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    "date": "2025-04-07",
    "entities": [
      "department-of-justice"
    ],
    "event_type": "policy",
    "headline": "DOJ disbands the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team",
    "id": "event-2025-04-07-ncet-disband",
    "lane": "official",
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    "precision": "date",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-guardian-ncet",
      "src-hirono-ncet-letter"
    ],
    "summary": "Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's memo disbanded the unit effective immediately, stating DOJ 'is not a digital assets regulator.' Blanche's own disclosure lists personal crypto holdings.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
  },
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    "actors": [
      "donald-trump"
    ],
    "claim_ids": [
      "claim-mt-april8-purchases"
    ],
    "date": "2025-04-08",
    "entities": [
      "office-of-government-ethics"
    ],
    "event_type": "transaction",
    "headline": "327 stock purchases in Trump-owned accounts, one trading day before the tariff pause",
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    "lane": "money",
    "market_context": null,
    "precision": "date",
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      "src-oge-278e-2025",
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      "src-independent-disclosure-tariffs"
    ],
    "summary": "This project's parse of the annual filing finds exactly 327 transaction rows dated April 8, 2025 — purchases including Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Nvidia per press analyses — first disclosed more than 14 months later.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
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    "actors": [
      "donald-trump"
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      "claim-mt-april9-sequence"
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    "date": "2025-04-09",
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      "trump-media-technology-group"
    ],
    "event_type": "communication",
    "headline": "Trump posts \"THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT\" on Truth Social",
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    "lane": "official",
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    "summary": "The post, signed 'DJT' — both Trump's initials and Trump Media's ticker — came roughly four hours before the tariff-pause announcement.",
    "time": "09:37",
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
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    "date": "2025-04-09",
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    "event_type": "policy",
    "headline": "90-day pause announced on most 'Liberation Day' tariffs",
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    "summary": "Trump announced the pause at about 1:18 p.m. ET, roughly four hours after the 'GREAT TIME TO BUY' post.",
    "time": "13:18",
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
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      "donald-trump"
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    "date": "2025-04-09",
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      "trump-media-technology-group"
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    "event_type": "market",
    "headline": "S&P 500 closes up 9.5%; Trump Media closes up 22.67%",
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      "instrument": "S&P 500 / DJT",
      "movement": "S&P 500 +9.5%; DJT +22.67% on the day.",
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      "src-pbs-ap-april9"
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    "summary": "One of the strongest sessions in decades. Trump Media's rise added about $415 million to the value of Trump's 53% stake, held in a trust controlled by Donald Trump Jr., per AP.",
    "time": "16:00",
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
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      "adam-schiff"
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    "claim_ids": [
      "claim-mt-senators-letters"
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    "date": "2025-04-10",
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      "white-house",
      "office-of-government-ethics"
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    "event_type": "oversight",
    "headline": "Sens. Schiff and Gallego write the White House and OGE about tariff-period trading",
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    "lane": "official",
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    "precision": "date",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-schiff-gallego-whoge-letter"
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    "summary": "The letter requested information about trading by administration insiders around the tariff announcements.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
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      "adam-schiff",
      "elizabeth-warren"
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      "claim-mt-senators-letters"
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    "date": "2025-04-11",
    "entities": [
      "securities-and-exchange-commission"
    ],
    "event_type": "oversight",
    "headline": "Six senators formally ask the SEC to investigate the April 9 sequence",
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    "precision": "date",
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      "src-schiff-warren-sec-letter",
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    ],
    "summary": "Sens. Schiff, Warren, Schumer, Wyden, Kelly, and Gallego asked SEC Chair Atkins to determine whether securities laws were violated on April 9. No investigation has been publicly confirmed since.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
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    "actors": [
      "donald-trump"
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      "claim-access-memecoin-dinner"
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    "date": "2025-04-23",
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      "trump-memecoin"
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    "event_type": "access",
    "headline": "$TRUMP website announces a private dinner for the token's top 220 holders",
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    "source_ids": [
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    ],
    "summary": "The announcement offered dinner with the president for the top 220 holders and a VIP reception and White House tour for the top 25, ranked by holdings and duration. The token's price rose sharply on the news.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
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      "donald-trump",
      "paul-walczak",
      "elizabeth-fago"
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      "claim-clem-walczak"
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    "date": "2025-04-23",
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      "maga-inc",
      "mar-a-lago",
      "department-of-justice"
    ],
    "event_type": "clemency",
    "headline": "Full pardon signed for Paul Walczak, twelve days after sentencing",
    "id": "event-2025-04-23-walczak-pardon",
    "lane": "official",
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    "precision": "date",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-doj-warrant-walczak",
      "src-nyt-walczak-pardon"
    ],
    "summary": "The pardon followed his mother's $1 million MAGA Inc. donation and a $1-million-per-plate Mar-a-Lago dinner by roughly one month, per NYT reporting; the pardon application cited her support.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
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      "donald-trump"
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      "claim-fm-qatari-diar"
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    "date": "2025-04-30",
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      "trump-organization",
      "qatari-diar"
    ],
    "event_type": "business",
    "headline": "Trump Organization's Qatar golf deal with sovereign-wealth-backed Qatari Diar reported",
    "id": "event-2025-04-30-qatar-deal",
    "lane": "business",
    "market_context": null,
    "precision": "date",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-nyt-qatar-dubai-deal",
      "src-ap-qatar-golf"
    ],
    "summary": "NYT reported the deal involving a Qatari government-owned firm, announced in the run-up to the May 2025 Gulf trip.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
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    "actors": [
      "zach-witkoff",
      "eric-trump",
      "justin-sun"
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      "claim-crypto-usd1-mgx-binance"
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    "date": "2025-05-01",
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      "mgx",
      "binance",
      "usd1-stablecoin",
      "world-liberty-financial"
    ],
    "event_type": "business",
    "headline": "USD1 announced as the stablecoin closing MGX's $2 billion Binance investment",
    "id": "event-2025-05-01-usd1-announcement",
    "lane": "business",
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    "precision": "date",
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      "src-reuters-wlf-usd1-mgx",
      "src-guardian-mgx-usd1"
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    "summary": "At Token 2049 in Dubai, WLF co-founder Zach Witkoff — onstage with Eric Trump and Justin Sun — announced World Liberty's USD1 had been selected to settle the Abu Dhabi state-backed firm's investment in Binance.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "Asia/Dubai"
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    "claim_ids": [
      "claim-fm-vietnam"
    ],
    "date": "2025-05-16",
    "entities": [
      "trump-organization",
      "hung-yen-hospitality"
    ],
    "event_type": "business",
    "headline": "Vietnam approves the $1.5 billion Trump Organization partner project",
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    "lane": "business",
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    "precision": "date",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-reuters-vietnam-approval"
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    "summary": "Provincial approval of the Hung Yen investment plan came amid active US–Vietnam trade talks, per Reuters.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh"
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    "actors": [
      "donald-trump"
    ],
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      "claim-fm-qatar-jet"
    ],
    "date": "2025-05-21",
    "entities": [
      "state-of-qatar",
      "department-of-defense",
      "presidential-library-fund"
    ],
    "event_type": "gift",
    "headline": "Pentagon accepts the Qatari Boeing 747-8 for use as interim Air Force One",
    "id": "event-2025-05-21-qatar-jet",
    "lane": "official",
    "market_context": null,
    "precision": "date",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-reuters-qatar-jet"
    ],
    "summary": "The roughly $400 million aircraft was accepted as a gift to the Department of Defense and is pledged, per reporting, for later transfer to Trump's presidential library foundation.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
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    "actors": [
      "eric-trump"
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      "claim-fm-vietnam"
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    "date": "2025-05-21",
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      "trump-organization",
      "hung-yen-hospitality"
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    "event_type": "business",
    "headline": "Groundbreaking on the Vietnam golf complex, with Vietnam's prime minister attending",
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    "lane": "business",
    "market_context": null,
    "precision": "date",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-reuters-vietnam-groundbreaking"
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    "summary": "Eric Trump attended the groundbreaking five days after approval, during bilateral trade negotiations, per Reuters.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh"
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    "actors": [
      "donald-trump",
      "justin-sun"
    ],
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      "claim-access-club-income",
      "claim-access-memecoin-dinner"
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    "date": "2025-05-22",
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      "trump-memecoin",
      "cic-digital-llc"
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    "headline": "Dinner for the top 220 $TRUMP holders at Trump National Golf Club, Virginia",
    "id": "event-2025-05-22-memecoin-dinner",
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    "market_context": null,
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      "src-cnbc-dinner-foreign"
    ],
    "summary": "Presidential access was allocated by token-holding rank; CNBC reported the top wallets appeared mostly non-US, and the White House denied any conflict of interest.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
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    "actors": [
      "donald-trump",
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    "date": "2025-05-27",
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      "department-of-justice"
    ],
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    "headline": "Full pardon for former sheriff Scott Jenkins on the eve of his reporting to prison",
    "id": "event-2025-05-27-jenkins-pardon",
    "lane": "official",
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    "source_ids": [
      "src-nbc-jenkins-pardons",
      "src-doj-usao-jenkins"
    ],
    "summary": "Jenkins had been sentenced to ten years on federal bribery and honest-services counts. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin marked the grant with a post reading 'No MAGA Left Behind,' per NBC News.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
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    "actors": [
      "donald-trump"
    ],
    "claim_ids": [
      "claim-access-media-settlements"
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    "date": "2025-07-02",
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      "paramount-global",
      "presidential-library-fund"
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    "headline": "Paramount agrees to pay $16 million to settle the '60 Minutes' lawsuit",
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    "lane": "business",
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    "precision": "date",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-ap-paramount-settlement",
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    "summary": "Settlement of the suit over the editing of a Kamala Harris interview; proceeds directed to the presidential library fund minus fees, per AP.",
    "time": null,
    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
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      "donald-trump"
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      "claim-crypto-genius-act"
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      "white-house",
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      "usd1-stablecoin"
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    "event_type": "policy",
    "headline": "Trump signs the GENIUS Act, the first federal stablecoin law",
    "id": "event-2025-07-18-genius-act",
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    "precision": "date",
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      "src-congress-genius-act",
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    "summary": "The president who signed the stablecoin framework has a disclosed family interest in a stablecoin issuer it regulates. The enacted text includes no Trump-specific recusal provision.",
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    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
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    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
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    "precision": "date",
    "source_ids": [
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    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
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    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
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    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
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    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
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    "summary": "The OGE Form 278e reports 21,285 transaction rows across eight accounts (independently reproduced from the primary PDF), at least $2.2 billion in income per outlet analyses, and late-filing fees for transactions not previously reported on 278-Ts.",
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      "department-of-commerce",
      "mgx"
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    "event_type": "policy",
    "headline": "Commerce rule easing UAE chip-export controls names MGX for favorable review",
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    "precision": "date",
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      "src-cnbc-mgx-chip-rule"
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    "time_zone": "America/New_York"
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