Who won a seat at Donald Trump’s crypto dinner?

The invitees for president Donald Trump‘s private dinner for customers of his cryptocurrency business on Thursday included a Chinese billionaire fighting a lawsuit from US regulators, a lawyer for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a former basketball star, according to a guest list obtained by The New York Times and social media posts.

The dinner, at which Trump gave remarks, was an extraordinary moment in which the president leveraged his position to make money — for his crypto business and for his Virginia golf club, which hosted the…