Ryan Selkis, co-founder and CEO of cryptocurrency research platform Messari, took to social media following an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania A heated debate ensued and he was about to resign.
Serkis is an outspoken Trump supporter who attended a sold-out fundraiser hosted by David Sacks in his honor in June. of U.S. green card holders deported. “I wish we could send you back,” he said in one conversation. Coin platform. “You are protected by constitutional rights, but you are not entitled to citizenship. I hope it stays that way.
“We must excise the metastatic cancer and evil of the left, by force if necessary. This is why the Second Amendment was and is so important,” he said in another X post. Don’t Start with Violence , but if it is brought to your doorstep, it ends violently.
Trump has received a flood of financial support from venture capitalists, technology founders and cryptocurrency backers in recent months, but Serkis has become one of the most outspoken supporters of the Republican nominee. (Analysis of Selkis’ recent X posts DL News Reporter Ben Weiss found that Selkis posted an average of 117 times a day, usually between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. local time.
In the days after the shooting, Serkis repeatedly claimed in hundreds of posts that the assassination attempt was an inside job. One of the posts showed a photo of a bloodied Trump pumping his fist as he was surrounded by Secret Service agents, along with former President Barack Obama, then-Vice President Joe Biden and other administration officials in a conference room Photo of SEAL Team 6 killing Osama bin Laden.
“We must assume this was planned,” Serkis wrote in the July 18 post. “They need to prove that’s not the case.”
In a post directed at Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a frequent critic of cryptocurrencies, Serkis suggested that the senator was involved in the assassination of Trump. He noted that Warren and gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks had a similar “phrase,” a reference to the discredited science of judging a person’s personality based on facial features.
Selkis will now serve as a senior advisor to Messari; current chief revenue officer Eric Turner will take over as CEO. In a note posted to X announcing the change, Serkis said he was “disgusted” by the media and the Biden administration’s “failure to suppress the divisive rhetoric that led to the attacks in the first place.” In a follow-up post, Serkis said he was “absolutely suppressing the IPA” while monitoring “the tone and balance of all articles” about his ouster.
When asked to comment via text message, Serkis told edge, “You get to write your hit articles for your worthless publication. Cheers.
