The White House has received reports in recent weeks that President Trump's personal phone number has been offered for sale to deep-pocketed interests seeking influence, two administration officials told us. 'It's honestly just wild,' one of them said. 'I've heard of CEOs offering money for his number. I've heard of crypto bros offering cryptocurrency for it.' Journalists have taken to horse-trading among themselves, offering the contact information of other world leaders'or sometimes even dozens of bold-faced names'just to get the most important one saved into their phones. 'It's out of control,' said the second official, who, like others we spoke with for this story, requested anonymity to talk frankly on the issue. 'It's like a wrecking ball.' No one foresaw this at the start of Trump's second term, when the number was closely held by the president's friends and a handful of journalists who used it sparingly. So many people now call Trump on his private iPhone that his advisers...
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