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By Thomas B. Edsall

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality.

This article has been updated to include information about Fairshake’s expenditures in the 2024 election cycle.

President Trump is methodically restructuring the federal regulatory and legislative apparatus. That much is known. What is less well understood is how that will pave the way for the Trump family to make potentially hundreds of millions of dollars from its cryptocurrency ventures.