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I was expecting this to be done by now as the administration is not worried about optics, so not sure what’s holding it up.
Unlike CZ, who made Trump and his family hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars, SBF has absolutely nothing to offer Trump. He's broke and a complete outcast. Ross Ulbricht became a cause celebre among libertarians, but SBF was always genuinely despised by pretty much everyone.
Unless he's the only rich person on earth who can't figure out how to bribe, this will happen.
I was expecting this to be done by now as the administration is not worried about optics, so not sure what’s holding it up.
Unlike CZ, who made Trump and his family hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars, SBF has absolutely nothing to offer Trump. He's broke and a complete outcast. Ross Ulbricht became a cause celebre among libertarians, but SBF was always genuinely despised by pretty much everyone.
His Anthropic investment alone would give him credibility. If it hadn't been liquidated for pennies FTX would have been one of the best performing funds of all time, even with the theft and mismanagement.
Do pardons require a full confession?
There's this notion from the Supreme Court case Burdick v. United States (1915) that accepting a pardon is an implicit admission of guilt. Therefore, a person can refuse a pardon. There isn't anything in the decision to justify the argument that accepting the pardon is an admission of guilt, it's just stated as a fact. It seems at odds with situations where pardons have been used to correct miscarriages of justice in…
The Burdick case had to do with an individual who had not yet been convicted of anything being offered a pardon in exchange for testimony that could have otherwise incriminated him. The Supreme Court ruled that in that specific scenario someone accepting a pardon could be seen as admitting guilt, so the pardon couldn't be forced on Burdick to strip away his fifth amendment right and compel his testimony.
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If it were that cheap Sean Combs would be a free man. They probably increase the expected bribe based on your perceived ability to pay.
It's probably as much about PR as it is about money - Puffy is a heavy lift on the PR side...
I was expecting this to be done by now as the administration is not worried about optics, so not sure what’s holding it up.
Unlike CZ, who made Trump and his family hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars, SBF has absolutely nothing to offer Trump. He's broke and a complete outcast. Ross Ulbricht became a cause celebre among libertarians, but SBF was always genuinely despised by pretty much everyone.
And was a campaign promise Trump issued in order to secure votes from that base.