Brian Quintez, US President Donald Trump’s nominees to run the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, published a text exchange he had with Tyler Winklevoss in his first public statement since his verification process seemed to stop during the summer in the White House direction and said he thought Trump “could have been deceived.”
Quintenz shared a number of text messages, which he said he would exchange with Tyler Winklevoss, co-founder and CEO of Crypto Exchange Gemini, will publish this week and Winklevoss Capital. Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler’s twin brother and co-founder, may also have been in the group Chat, entitled “TW-CW-BQ,” but did not send any messages in the screens shared by Quintenz. In the chat, dated July 24, Tyler Winklevoss Quintenz asked if he had seen a post on X from June 17, with Tyler advertising Gemini had filed a complaint with CFTC’s Inspector General of the Department of Enforcement Attorney General who had been pursuing charges against Gemini.
“I think these texts make it clear what they were after from me and what I refused to promise,” Quintenz said in his posts, representing a very unusual step for a nominee in the midst of a federal verification process. “It is my understanding that after this exchange they contacted the president and asked that my confirmation be pause for reasons other than what is reflected in these texts.”
Before the Senate left Washington for his August break, Quintenz’s nomination was established to what was thought to be an easy procedural step in the Senate Agricultural Committee to promote it on the floor of his final confirmation vote. But the White House stopped this vote for reasons why it did not make it clear at the time, although Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss had led a rhetorical campaign to stop his confirmation.
Winklevoss told Coindesk in an interview in July that he had made the case that Quintenz was a bad choice because of the former commissioner’s desire to increase the CFTC budget to oversee the crypto industry, his previous views on legal responsibility for Crypto developers and what Winklevoss characterized as Quintenz’s implementing attempt to influence CFTC on a view of a view of a view of a view of a view of a view of a view of a view of a view of an impact on the CFTC. Preachers marketing.
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Quintenz’s post on Wednesday suggested that Winklevoss was upset in his opinion that Quintenz did not participate in criticism of CFTC’s enforcement effort after the agency pursued charges against Gemini, which was settled in January.
“I know we had talked about this in the winter where I remembered my original extreme disappointment over [the Enforcement Division] To pursue this so aggressively, “said a text from Quintenz.” I oblige you to have a fair and reasonable review of the case and the department involved and individuals to determine if they acted inappropriately. “
He continued to say that a “fully confirmed chairman” should be the person who had to deal with the case, but that if anyone is currently employed by CFTC “communicated with” The Winklevosses, he would have to “give the careful thought.”
Winklevoss asked if Quintenz said Gemini should have waited to lodge their complaint until the Senate confirmed the former commissioner, as Quintenz replied that “any decision or response to your complaint should be taken by and in view of the full weight of the confirmed chairman.”
The Crypto director said they had talked about CFTC’s enforcement efforts against Gemini after Quintenz asked for Winklevoss Brothers’ endorsement in December.
“Cultural reform, which includes correcting what happened to us, should be the highest priority,” Winklevoss said. “I want to understand your thoughts on this and how to plan to adapt to President Trump and the administration’s mandate to end the law and do something for it.”
He added that he would “be happy to raise the question with the president himself” if Quintenz thought he was undermined by current CFTC employees.
Quintenz, Winklevoss and a spokesman for Gemini did not immediately return requests for comment. Coindesk could not independently verify the authenticity of the text.
In July, a coalition that represented the vast majority of the crypto industry came out to push President Donald Trump to move on to get Quintenz confirmed and called him the “right person at the right time” to run CFTC. Although the Senate has been back from the break for a while and has returned to his confirmation work for many of Trump’s appointed, the committee has not yet planned a follow -up vote for Quintenz
Meanwhile, Securities and Exchange Commission President Paul Atkins has been pushing for an industry -friendly “project crypto” initiative, while the temporary chief of CFTC, acting chairman Caroline Pham has stood in the sister agency with a similar “Crypto Sprint.” The two of them have made recent common movements to clear the legislative path for digital assets.
