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Sam Bankman-Fried applies for a pardon from Trump

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Re: Sam Bankman-Fried applies for a pardon from Trump

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post #55

Help Trump launch another meme coin and he’s out

SBF offering to manage Trump's meme coins might appeal to Trump. They've crashed. [1][2] Trump's stablecoin was just delisted a few hours ago, as part of a strange dispute.[3]

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/official-trump/

[2] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/melania-meme/

[3] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/usd1/

Re: Sam Bankman-Fried applies for a pardon from Trump

#62

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It's probably as much about PR as it is about money - Puffy is a heavy lift on the PR side...

Giuliani was hawking pardons in the final days of Trump's first term. I'd expect that Trump will be much more interested in money than PR in the final days of his second term too. But he might not live that long, which must be excruciating if you're a wealthy crook.

Yeah, but he has a lot more money now - grifted literally billions - so I guess more is more, so idk.

Re: Sam Bankman-Fried applies for a pardon from Trump

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post #32

Unless he's the only rich person on earth who can't figure out how to bribe, this will happen.

He spent a lot of money on political donations. I don't think it was from the goodness of his heart.

The problem for poor SBF is that he donated to the President's opponents, so presumably he'll need to pay a higher rate for his pardon.

Re: Sam Bankman-Fried applies for a pardon from Trump

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This is a 5 minute search compared to your zero evidence. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/15/opinion/leonh... https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-trump-racism-election-... https://www.npr.org/2026/03/27/nx-s1-5763863/hegseth-soldier...

This is 2 minutes of reading that NY Times piece:

- "A former hotel executive said Trump criticized a black accountant" OK, hearsay but OK.

- Trump doesn't like crime? Associating that with race makes the NY Times seem very racist.

- “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” - Islam isn't a race.

- Haiti is a shithole. It's not polite to say, but that's why people want to leave. The statement that Haiti isn't desirable has nothing to do with race.

- He claimed that the same caravan included “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners.” - and? Caravans from Mexico included a lot of people from unknown countries including some whose governments expouse wanting to kill Americans.

Re: Sam Bankman-Fried applies for a pardon from Trump

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post #50
post #21

This story doesn't mean anything. SBF has been "seeking" a pardon for over a year now. There's no due process consideration for obtaining a pardon; "applying" for one doesn't get you anything more than asking for one on Twitter would --- given the current administration, asking on Twitter might get you further! I don't think SBF's case is slipping the administration's mind.

Maybe you apply to Trump's sons with a proposal as to how to enrich their crypto ventures?

As I recall, Biden pardoned all of his family members. If you think corruption is a single party issue, your bias itself is corrupted over basic logic

Re: Sam Bankman-Fried applies for a pardon from Trump

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post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe you apply to Trump's sons with a proposal as to how to enrich their crypto ventures?

As I recall, Biden pardoned all of his family members. If you think corruption is a single party issue, your bias itself is corrupted over basic logic

Nice talking point, but no, the difference between the parties is staggering and growing.

And what Biden did is not even remotely comparable to what Trump does with full support of conservatives and republicans.

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