Just two years ago, 1789 Capital Management “was a struggling venture capital firm that earned consistently disappointing results by serially investing in total market flops,” but after recruiting President Donald Trump’s eldest son in the wake of the 2024 US election, it “suddenly had the Midas touch,” a key congressional Democrat highlighted this week, launching an investigation.

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.)—a lawyer who managed the historic second impeachment of the president—revealed Thursday that the previous day he had sent a letter demanding answers from Donald Trump Jr., who is a partner at 1789 Capital, as well as company president Omeed Malik and chief investment officer Christopher Buskirk. READ MORE