What made this story land with unusual force is that it arrived pre-assembled. The investment — a secretly acquired stake in a Trump family crypto company — preceded the policy reversal by weeks, not years. The policy reversal — chip exports the prior administration had blocked — followed the investment without any public accounting of the relationship between the two events [18][19][20]. Blanche's appearance on ABC News, in which he deflected rather than disputed the sequence, provided the confirmation the timeline needed: the administration had no exculpatory account to offer…