It would disgust decent people everywhere if SBF got a pardon. So I’d say he has a shot! The only question is: what can he offer Trump? Advice on crypto scams, perhaps?
Sam Bankman-Fried is angling for a pardon from Trump
Submitted 5 days ago by scarabic@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Mama miaaaa
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Linguine
Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The podcast he went on was utterly bonkers lol. He was complaining that the Democrats didn’t get him out of legal trouble even tho he donated so much money to them. So now he’s switching sides to Republican.
Armand1@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The requirements to get pardoned under the current administration are:
- Be white
- Be rich or high profile
- Be generally aligned with the right
- Claim your incarceration was politically motivated (it almost never is)
Your crime does not matter. Trump will accuse foreign refugees of being drug dealers and violent criminals, then pardon drug dealers and violent criminals if they were white and high profile enough (Google Ross Ulbricht as an example).
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
Be generally aligned with the right
It’s gotta be authoritarian right though… I can’t see a pro-immigration, pro-choice, pro-gun, anti-tariff, anti-corruption (generally pro-freedom, that thing republicans pretend to like) libertarian getting anywhere with trump, it wouldn’t surprise me if a tankie got along better given they’re into most of the things trump likes
Armand1@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I disagree. Most of the people Trump has pardoned, helped or gotten along with are libertarians.
They’re millionaires / billionaires who hate taxation and regulations because it gets in the way of their ruthless means of making money.
Trump is more than happy to help them to do that. He runs the government like a quid-pro-quo crime syndicate where you can buy yourself favours, including getting out of jail.
His authoritarianism only targets the poor; whatever scapegoat-du-jour the far-right hate today (trans, LGBT, minorities, immigrants); and anyone that tries to protect them.
He needs votes to stay in power, and since he can’t appeal to the left because everything he does is diametrically opposed with them (regulation, social spending, taxation of the rich) he has to pander to the far-right to keep a majority. Even if he is likely more right than far-right himself.
WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 5 days ago
They want to pardon the ex cop that killed George Floyd, why should this be a surprise? Laws don’t apply to the rich.
Aphelion@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Trump can’t parson state level convictions, only Federal.
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 5 days ago
After all the president, while pretending to care about fentanyl pardoned THE guy that did the most work in facilitating online sales of fentanyl
kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
If you are talking about the silkroad that was way before the fentanyl crisis in the US wasn’t it?
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Kind of when fent was just getting going. Funny enough if you bought on silk road you were highly likely to get legit product. Shutting it down no doubt caused deaths from OD when people started buying off the street
kandoh@reddthat.com 5 days ago
I OD’d on fent that I bought as MDMA from the silk road in 2017
JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
The only question is: what can he offer Trump? Advice on crypto scams, perhaps?
Another few pumps (followed by dumps) of Trump’s meme coins.
caboose2006@lemm.ee 5 days ago
And piss off his billionaire buddies? Doubtful.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 5 days ago
What about his mutant gf?
Lanusensei87@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Well, there is a small problem: he screwed over rich people, that’s a big no no.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
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