Blow for Trump’s Truth Social as merger company hit by grand jury subpoenas

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Disclosure of subpoenas for board members by blank cheque firm Digital World is latest blow to Donald Trump’s social media plans

A ​​US federal grand jury has issued subpoenas to the board members of the company merging with Donald Trump’s social media company, Truth Social.

The disclosure, made on Monday by the blank cheque company Digital World Acquisition Corporation, is the latest blow to Trump’s plans to take Trump Media & Technology Group , the creator of Truth Social, public. TMTG agreed to merge with Digital World last October and was expecting the deal to close by the second half of this year. Both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, are investigating the merger.The news is likely to further delay the merger, which would provide Truth Social with $1.3bn in capital, in addition to a stock market listing.

Shares of Digital World fell 9% in morning trading after the company said in a regulatory filing that it had become aware that a federal grand jury in the southern district of New York had issued subpoenas to its directors. Digital World is a special purpose acquisition company , a blank cheque company set up to go public and then find a company to merge with. Spacs are not supposed to have a deal lined up before they go public.

 

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Talking of blows I wonder how Melania and the pool boy are doing

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