"I didn't promote it, I just spread it": Milei excuses herself from any responsibility for having spread the crypto scam

Barcelona"I didn't promote it, I just spread it." Javier Milei continues to kick the ball out of the park regarding his responsibility in the $Libra crypto scam. This Monday, the president of Argentina, in the eye of the storm after having promoted a meme coin

During the interview, the Argentine leader denied that the number of those affected by the scam could rise to 44,000 and said that at most there would have been "only" 5,000, "with a very remote probability that they were Argentines." In addition, Milei said that the buyers are "very specialized" investors, who knew "very well" the risk they were assuming. The Argentine has defined them as "operators of volatility." The interview has brought the networks to a boil.

A censored video clip

However, the most talked about moment of the interview has not been broadcast on the air. A clip of the conversation has been leaked on the networks in which it seems like an advisor to the president asks the journalist to backtrack with a question. At that moment, Milei claimed that the tweet came from his "personal" account, while the journalist rebutted him by insisting that he was the president. To justify himself, Milei alluded to the fact that his profile description only says "economist." In the middle of the discussion, they feel how they are interrupted. "What? This part out?" asks the interviewer. At that very moment, taking advantage of the break in the interview, the advisor enters the studio and whispers something in Milei's ear. When he leaves, the interviewer reasons with Milei's team: "I understand, I see that he may have legal problems."

The speed in recommending $Libra

One of the points that has raised the most dust since Milei promoted $Libra has been the speed with which the president promoted it. From its creation to the moment Milei made the tweet, only three minutes passed. Were three minutes enough for him to understand and study whether it was a good investment? The Argentine leader assured that his "fanaticism" for technology was what led him to share the meme coin.

Milei's excuses

"Everyone who put money in did so voluntarily," Milei says. The president continued to exonerate himself of any responsibility when it came to spreading the cryptocurrency that ended up being a scam. In fact, after assuring that he had not "promoted" it, but that he had "spread it," he insisted that "it is not the same."

A question of experience

The economist and president also said that he is not an "expert" in cryptocurrencies, but that he promoted the digital currency because he is a "techno-optimist" who considered the project "interesting." "My specialization is economic growth, with or without money," he said.