{"id":30588,"date":"2025-06-06T12:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T12:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=30588"},"modified":"2025-06-06T12:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T12:03:04","slug":"cz-calls-out-ny-times-over-trump-meme-coin-dinner-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=30588","title":{"rendered":"CZ Calls Out NY Times Over Trump Meme Coin Dinner Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Binance founder Changpeng \u201cCZ\u201d Zhao has launched a fierce public rebuttal against The New York Times, accusing the publication of manufacturing Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) by insinuating a significant personal or business connection between him and Tianying \u201cSky\u201d He, an attendee of the recent Washington D.C. dinner promoting pro-Trump meme coins.<\/p>\n

The dispute erupted today as CZ shared private reporter inquiries on his X account, vehemently denying any substantive ties to Sky He or his project, LuckyFuture, while ridiculing the basis of the New York Times\u2019 questions.<\/p>\n

\u201cFUD in the Making\u201d<\/h2>\n

According to Zhao, the full NY Times inquiry explicitly asked<\/a>: \u201cDoes Tianying He have any personal or family connection with CZ or He Ye? And does Tianying He\u2019s company, LuckyFuture, have any connection with Binance?\u201d<\/p>\n

The reporter noted that Sky He features a photo with Zhao on his X profile, interacts with him online, and occasionally refers to him as \u201c\u5927\u8868\u54e5\u201d (d\u00e0 bi\u01ceog\u00e9), translated as \u201cbig cousin.\u201d<\/p>\n

CZ framed these questions as baseless and built on negative assumptions due to a lack of evidence, pointedly asking:<\/p>\n

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\u201cHow desperate do you have to be to make up the story above? Or are you being paid to smear?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The ex-Binance CEO sarcastically invited<\/a> his followers to \u201csee FUD in the making,\u201d before systematically dismantling the implied connections. He clarified that he only followed Sky after seeing the Trump dinner attendee\u2019s post featuring a BNB Chain logo from May 2024, stressing that he hadn\u2019t known him before then.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, CZ stated that he only became aware of Sky\u2019s project, LuckyFuture, after he himself made a public post about perpetual decentralized exchanges<\/a>, prompting Sky to reach out.<\/p>\n

The 48-year-old also denied ever discussing Trump or U.S. matters with Sky. He explained that the \u201cbig cousin\u201d reference was nothing more than a common term of respect and informal closeness within the vast Chinese-speaking crypto community, not a literal familial claim, humorously noting he took \u201c600 selfies in one day in Token Dubai alone,\u201d with many in those communities using the nickname.<\/p>\n

A Pattern of Combating \u201cNegative\u201d Reporting<\/h2>\n

This latest pushback comes just weeks after Zhao went toe-to-toe with the Wall Street Journal over claims<\/a> that he acted as a \u201cfixer\u201d for Donald Trump\u2019s World Liberty Financial (WLF) in arranging overseas government meetings.<\/p>\n

Before that, the same outlet published a story alleging the crypto entrepreneur had held talks with representatives of the Trump family over the possibility of their investing<\/a> in Binance.US. The WSJ report linked this to his pursuit of a presidential pardon following a guilty plea for violating U.S. anti-money laundering laws, which saw him imprisoned for four months and barred from managing Binance.<\/p>\n

Following those reports, CZ confirmed<\/a> on May 8, 2025, that he had formally applied for clemency from President Trump through his legal team, citing the head of state\u2019s pardon of BitMEX founders (who also pleaded guilty to Bank Secrecy Act violations) as precedent.<\/p>\n

The post CZ Calls Out NY Times Over Trump Meme Coin Dinner Allegations<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Binance founder Changpeng \u201cCZ\u201d Zhao has launched a fierce public rebuttal against The New York Times, accusing the publication of manufacturing Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) by insinuating a significant personal or business connection between him and Tianying \u201cSky\u201d He, an attendee of the recent Washington D.C. dinner promoting pro-Trump meme coins. The dispute erupted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-30588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}