I’m still amazed Sam Trabucco got absolutely nothing. Stepped away in August 2022 as Co-CEO with Ellison and we are supposed to believe he was innocent and knew nothing?
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Eh, I am pretty sure Trump is gonna end up pardoning SBF. It just seems like the sort of thing that is going to happen.
Not sure what he would gain from that. The crypto community largely backed him in the last election, and pardoning SBF would seriously piss them off.
> Not sure what he would gain from that.
Might be more like "what the people advising Trump would gain".
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The backlash was relatively mild because few of his supporters personally see themselves as victims of the Honduran ex-president. That's very different from SBF—almost everyone who invested in crypto at the time hates him, not to mention the actual FTX customers.
Everybody hates Trump, he's the least popular president ever. Unless these crypto folks have massive money and are using it right now to pay Trump tk not pardon SBF, what would they do? What backlash could crypto do? It's not like he can unpardon Trump. Crypto just joins the long line of people who fell for it again and nothing happens. What, is a Republican going to vote against Trump? Hah! Impeachment? What trouble…
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Wha backlash? Trump pardoned a Honduran ex-president convicted of smuggling tons of drugs, right in the midst of using the military to bomb boats for unproven drug smuggling, and kidnapped Maduro presumably because of drugs too (or was it oil?). Zero repercussions except for futile anger from internet weirdos like me. This administration seems to relish getting away with things that would destroy any other presidency…
By the way, have any more boats been bombed since the US ousted Maduro?
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#76Nearly every thug in the country is being pardoned. Are these not thug enough for the chief?
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It turns out sentencing cares whether you’re cooperative and contrite or you stand by having done nothing wrong.
...the primary effect of which is that fewer than 4% of criminal cases go to trial, and our prison, parole, and probation systems are full of people who pled to crimes they did not commit, and poison trees of evidence are intentionally and ruthlessly planted without challenge or consideration by a jurist.
I don't think the answer is more lawyers/judges and court rooms to fill that 96%
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Trump could do it... to piss off SBF himself (second biggest donor to Biden/democrats behind Soros)
SBF claims to have spread money equally between the parties, but hid the Republican donations: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sam-bankman-fried-says-donate...
That doesn't make his claim any less factual, and we have no idea if he gave money to Trump.
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Just add in AI and you hit internet karma jackpot.
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It is disappointing to me that people can look at the list of infamous people he has already pardoned, who have paid him, and then expect that he won't continue acting on trend, just because some shallow-book manipulable prediction market, which is primarily a money laundering tool for event fixers, tells us that it's "not likely".
I think that because of my own judgment, not because the market told me. Also, it seems unlikely that someone would burn money to manipulate this market as there's nothing to gain from it. By the way, Trump literally said he won't pardon SBF[0]. It seems money is not the only factor he considers when handing out pardons. [0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-not-pardon-sam-bankman-...
> By the way, Trump literally said he won't pardon SBF[0].
So Trump will pardon SBF?