TREE NEWS update: Argentine President Javier Milei responded to a judicial ruling that dismissed the criminal case against him and his sister Karina Milei over the $LIBRA cryptocurrency, asking who would compensate him for reputational damage suffered over ‘one year, eight months and nine days’ from lies, slander and insults. He said the judiciary had ‘righted itself’ and exposed a ‘huge political and media operation’ aimed at harming the presidency for ‘coup-style’ political ends, naming several journalists in his criticism. A court had earlier revoked the LIBRA criminal investigation into the president and his sister.
Argentina’s Milei says LIBRA case dismissal exposes ‘coup-style’ campaign against him
The dismissal closes the criminal chapter but not the political one: Milei is reframing a token scandal as a media-judicial campaign against his presidency, which matters because the LIBRA episode touched his personal brand as a crypto-friendly outsider. Naming journalists signals the fight is moving from courtrooms to public legitimacy, and the reputational-damage framing keeps the issue alive rather than retiring it. Whether the case's closure quiets scrutiny of the token's promotion or merely shifts it to political terrain is the open question, along with how Argentina's crypto constituency reads the episode.
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