The Trial of Crypto’s Golden Boy: The Government Grills SBF
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🗓️ 31 October 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today we got to hear Bankman Freedom Classical Sound by the government and Vichol you were |
| 0:12.9 | in the courtroom for it. What do you make of how that went? |
| 0:16.7 | What I was in the courtroom to see a kind of new Sam Bankman Freedom. Today his answers |
| 0:21.6 | were short, they were sharp and I don't know would be the way I would sum it up. I think |
| 0:26.2 | that was just his general tone in response to the prosecution's questions. |
| 0:29.9 | Yeah, there was a lot of questions that the lead prosecutor Danielle Sassun directed |
| 0:34.1 | to a Bankman Freedom asking him about statements he made to media, messages he posted on social |
| 0:39.2 | media, and he kept in different versions saying, I don't recall, I don't know. And to me it |
| 0:45.1 | was, you know, quite shocking especially for, you know, some of the information they |
| 0:48.6 | presented to him where he was saying, you know, I really don't remember how this came |
| 0:52.2 | to be. Yeah, I mean, to the point that she, the prosecutor Danielle Sassun would pull |
| 0:56.7 | up an article where he had been quoted or an interview he had done. And she would say |
| 1:01.2 | to Bankman Freedom, did you say this? And he would essentially say, I don't recall. |
| 1:05.2 | And it's there in black and white. Yeah. And so I mean, I think it was a very different |
| 1:09.5 | image of Bankman Freedom than we saw without the jury present, but still one that I think |
| 1:15.1 | may not be convincing to a jury. They're going to have to sit there and assess Bankman Freedom's |
| 1:20.0 | credibility based off of his testimony in court. Like they told you, I don't know, like |
| 1:24.6 | how are the jurors reacting to all this? I mean, they were just trying to keep up, honestly, |
| 1:28.8 | with the barrage of questions that was coming at Bankman Freedom from the prosecutor Sassun. |
| 1:33.6 | And then the barrages of, I don't know or I don't recall from Bankman Freedom, it was |
| 1:37.9 | very tense. And I have no idea what opinion they're going to be taking away at the end of |
| 1:43.6 | this. It's not over. We still have more to come tomorrow. But I mean, I didn't predict |
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