Trump Can’t Explain Why He Pardoned Crypto CEO Who Did Huge Financial Favors for Him
Eleven days ago, president Donald Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, whose crypto exchange facilitated a multibillion-dollar deal involving the Trump family’s own World Liberty Financial.
Just hours later, he told a reporter that he didn’t know why the White House had decided to pardon Zhao, highlighting what MSNBC is calling a “brazenly corrupt pardon.”
“I don’t know,” he said bluntly at the time. “He was recommended by a lot of people.”
During a Sunday interview with CBS News, Trump once again professed ignorance about the man he had pardoned just over a week ago, a move that requires his personal signature.
“I don’t know who he is,” he said. “I know he got a four-month sentence or…
