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A lot for safety: Dozens of Trump lackeys have public Venmo accounts

Editorial Board Published April 9, 2025
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It’s not simply nationwide safety adviser Mike Waltz who sucks at, effectively, sustaining nationwide safety. Dozens of Trump Cupboard officers are additionally clueless with regards to defending their private data.

NOTUS dropped a report on Tuesday displaying that greater than 50 members of Congress and not less than 30 Trump administration officers—together with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, press secretary Karoline Leavitt, and commerce adviser Peter Navarro—had public Venmo accounts. And plenty of of them nonetheless haven’t flipped the privateness swap.

For some, their open transactions supplied a weirdly intimate have a look at their private lives. Republican Rep. Steve Womack of Arkansas, for instance, had Venmo exercise suggesting he likes to gamble on main golf tournaments. One cost, dated April 6, 2021, was labeled “Masters 21 Donation.”

In the meantime, Democratic Rep. Greg Landsman of Ohio despatched cash to his sister with the be aware: “Some concert I didn’t even go to.”

“These people in Congress and on the executive branch teams, we think of them as people that have done a lot of things and know a lot of things,” utility safety specialist Invoice Sempf informed NOTUS. “But that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re particularly internet savvy. It does not surprise me at all that you would find a large portion of Congress in there.”


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Positive, some public Venmo funds—particularly innocent ones like these of Landsman and Womack—may appear innocent at first. However you then bear in mind: a few of these individuals with wide-open accounts are both immediately tied to, or are, those in command of nationwide safety. 

NOTUS additionally reported that it wasn’t precisely a digital manhunt to trace them down. Many members of Congress or Cupboard members have been mates with one another on the app, which made it simple to attach the dots. 

“Besides the privacy violation that may lead to embarrassing or inappropriate details of your life and associates, one of the risks is that adversaries might target your contacts,” cybersecurity skilled Katie Moussouris informed NOTUS. “If they compromise a close contact, they are more likely to be successful sending a convincing phishing message that appears to be from that person.”

In different phrases, in the event you’re dumb sufficient to depart your Venmo vast open, you’re in all probability dumb sufficient to get performed by somebody making an attempt to infiltrate U.S. intelligence. And if members of Trump’s Cupboard can’t even lock down their transaction historical past, what’s stopping them from casually dropping wartime intel in a Sign group chat? (Oh, proper. They already did that.) 

NOTUS mentioned that even after being contacted, officers like Duffy, deputy chief of workers Stephen Miller, and Navarro nonetheless hadn’t made their mates listing non-public. This is perhaps a problem, contemplating a few of their Venmo buddies embody journalists from CNN, Politico, and The New York Occasions. 

These aren’t precisely nice optics when your boss thinks all three retailers are the enemy of the individuals—and simply exploded over Waltz having The Atlantic’s Jeff Goldberg in his contacts.

To be truthful, some officers did attempt to clear up the mess. NOTUS reported that Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth nuked his account as soon as reporters began digging. Vice President JD Vance did the identical after his Venmo was uncovered again in July 2024.

Nonetheless, there have been some actually troubling finds. Navarro is Venmo mates with resident grifter Laura Loomer, who’s Venmo buddies with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. One Division of Authorities Effectivity staffer named Christopher Stanley had public transactions labeled “(.Y.) 😍” and others that have been simply … eggplant emojis. Elegant.

Completely regular habits from an administration that’s presently dismantling democracy and tanking the financial system.

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