President Javier Milei failed in his attempt to downplay his role in a cryptocurrency scandal in which he promoted a memecoin that later collapsed, the consequences of which spilled over into Argentine assets after investors returned from a U.S. holiday.
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00:00In Argentina, a leaked video reveals how the government and the channel Todo Noticias manipulated an interview to protect the president.
00:07The interview, conducted by pro-government journalist Jonathan Viale, intended to clean Millet's image after the scandal caused by his promotion of the crash Libra cryptocurrency.
00:18However, an unedited version was leaked, where his advisor Santiago Caputo interrupts the conversation
00:25as the president was confessing that he was going to resort to the Ministry of Justice to carry out his defense, even though the case concerns him and not the state.
00:34After the interruption, the interviewer accepts the statement, could create a judicial mess and asks the president to redo the question.
00:42The truth is, we have the legal issues, not only mine. It would be imprudent of me to anticipate this.
00:53And surely the one who understands it best is our Minister of Justice, Mariano Cuneo Liberona.
00:59He will follow the entire judicial strategy.
01:02Well, he is the Minister of Justice. He is the one who knows about this.
01:06But it is an issue in which you participated as a citizen and as president. That's why I'm asking you.
01:13But, again, it is good that you pointed out as a citizen, because I was tweeting from my personal account.
01:19But you already realized that no, you are the president. You told me before.
01:24Yes, but my account is my personal account.
01:27Ok, but you are the president.
01:29See what my account says.
01:31Economist.
01:32Yes, I know.
01:33But you're the president.
01:36What? With that part?
01:41Well, I don't know where I was.
01:43Well, ok, ok.
01:47Yes, I know why.
01:49Because of the trial.
01:52Right?
01:54Right.
01:58Right? Yes, obviously.
02:00No, I understand, I realize, it can create a judicial mess for you.
02:06So, where were we?
02:08I don't know, you asked me again about Libra, I don't know.
02:11Ok, I'll go back from there.