about Binance, which frankly looks to me like a blatant pay for pardon scheme.

So let me walk through some of the facts that lead me to that conclusion.

In late 2023, Binance and CEO Zhao agreed to pay a penalty of $4.36 billion.

A U.S. judge approved a guilty plea for multiple

federal crimes and a civil settlement for anti-Mundi laundering and sanctions. And that was in

2023. Donald Trump is elected president, November 2024. December 2020, Mr. Zhao and Mr. Whitkoff meet in Abu Dhabi at a Bitcoin conference.

In March of 2025, a couple months later, you're confirmed as Deputy Attorney General.

March 25th, 2025, World Liberty Financial announced that it would

launch a stable coin called USD-1. World Liberty Financial is a family-owned business by the Trump

Trump family. Two of his sons are in it, Mr. Whitkoff's got interest in it as well. One month later,

in April 2025,

Binance's founder, Mr. Zhao, was sentenced to federal prison for money laundering and other federal crimes.

That included funding to terrorist groups like ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

On May 1, World Liberty Financial announces that an Emirati company called MGX, that also has ties to Mr.

Whitkoff, would use $2 billion on the stable coin I just mentioned, U.S.D.1, to invest in finance.

This gave President Trump and his family a revenue stream that could be worth

tens of millions of dollars. According to the Wall Street Journal, Binance took steps that

catapulted the Trump's family's ventures into stable coin product, enhancing its credibility

and pushing its market capitalization up from $127 million to over $2.1 billion.

Now, on May 5th, Mr. Zhao publicly stated that he had applied for a presidential pardon

for the crimes that he'd previously pled guilty to and had been sentenced to jail for.

And the restitution amount of $4.3 billion plus was put in place.

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