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Billionaire GOP Donor Ken Griffin Criticizes Trump Administration For ‘Enriching’ Family Members

Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin on Tuesday criticized President Donald Trump’s administration, alleging that some of its actions had helped enrich the family members of administration officials, in a rare instance of a prominent GOP donor and corporate leader criticizing the White House.

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Speaking at a Wall Street Journal event, the Citadel founder and CEO said the Trump administration has “definitely made missteps in choosing decisions or courses that have been very, very enriching to the families of those in the administration.”

Griffin said he was very bothered by the purported self-dealing, saying he wants to believe people in office “have the public interest at heart in everything they do,” and these actions call into question, “Is the public interest being served?”

“I think that there’s just a necessity for us as a society to re-embrace some of the critical concepts of ethics in public service,” Griffin added.

While Griffin has publicly criticized Trump’s policy positions in the past, this is the first time he has spoken out against the alleged conflicts of interest and self-enrichment of the President and his administration officials.

Americans view the nation’s biggest challenge far differently from most of the world, according to new international polling.

A Gallup survey of 1,000 respondents ages 15 and older across 107 countries, conducted between March and October 2025, found that 33 percent of Americans identify politics as the country’s most pressing problem—ranking it above the economy.

That focus sets the U.S. apart globally. Only Taiwan recorded a statistically significant higher share, with half of respondents naming politics as their top concern, a reflection of the island’s unique political pressures.

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Americans view the nation’s biggest challenge far differently from most of the world, according to new international polling.

A Gallup survey of 1,000 respondents ages 15 and older across 107 countries, conducted between March and October 2025, found that 33 percent of Americans identify politics as the country’s most pressing problem—ranking it above the economy.

That focus sets the U.S. apart globally. Only Taiwan recorded a statistically significant higher share, with half of respondents naming politics as their top concern, a reflection of the island’s unique political pressures.

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The poll comes as other surveys have shown mounting dissatisfaction with the Trump administration amid its aggressive foreign policy and immigration enforcement tactics.

Polls have shown Trump tanking on immigration—previously his strongest issue—with a YouGov/The Economist survey showing growing support for dismantling ICE.

Meanwhile, a January poll conducted by Harvard University and The Harris Poll suggests public opinion has shifted against Trump’s performance.

In the survey, a narrow majority—51 percent—said Trump is doing a worse job than former President Joe Biden, while 49 percent rated him as an improvement. The findings mark a reversal from the same poll taken in December, when a majority of respondents said Trump was outperforming Biden, indicating a notable swing in sentiment in just one month.

A YouGov/Economist poll also found that 71 percent think the United States is “out of control” under Trump, while only 18 percent think the country is “under control.”

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The view that the Democrats can better handle affordability gives them an early edge in the generic Congressional vote preference, where voters are asked who they will support in the U.S. House race in their district this November. While the question is largely hypothetical this far out, it gives us a baseline for the coming election, according to Republican pollster Daron Shaw.

"Political science analyses demonstrate that aggregate responses to this question begin to more accurately predict the actual House vote by around mid-summer," Shaw added. "But we ask it at this point simply to get a sense of how short-term forces might play out in the general election."

The survey shows if the election were today, 52% of voters would back the Democratic candidate in their House district and 46% the Republican. That’s a 6-point edge, which is right at the poll’s margin of sampling error.

The current 52% Democratic support is the highest recorded for either party; the previous high was 50% for the Democrats in October 2017. [Emphasis mine]

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