{"id":54651,"date":"2025-10-24T12:31:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=54651"},"modified":"2025-10-24T12:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:31:31","slug":"pro-trump-billionaire-slams-binance-founder-cz-zhaos-pardon-massive-fraud-is-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=54651","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Trump Billionaire Slams Binance Founder &#8216;CZ&#8217; Zhao&#8217;s Pardon: &#8216;Massive Fraud Is Happening&#8230;&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Prominent Trump supporter and <strong>Palantir <\/strong>(NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/PLTR\">PLTR<\/a>) co-founder <strong>Joe Lonsdale<\/strong> has publicly criticized the president\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/10\/48385790\/trump-pardens-binance-founder-changpeng-zhao-ending-biden-administrations-war-on-crypto\">decision to pardon<\/a>\u00a0<strong>Changpeng \u201cCZ\u201d Zhao<\/strong>, the co-founder of\u00a0<strong>Binance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018POTUS Advised Terribly On This,\u2019 Says Lonsdale<\/h2>\n<p>Lonsdale took to X on Thursday to say: \u201cPOTUS has been\u00a0terribly advised on this; it\u00a0makes it look like massive\u00a0fraud is happening around him\u00a0in this area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He expressed his admiration for Trump, saying, \u201cthis is possibly the greatest admin of my lifetime \u2013 except for these pardons.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Zhao, a billionaire who is one of the most influential figures in crypto, quit in 2023 as Binance\u2019s top boss after the\u00a0company\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/08\/47021736\/binance-founder-zhao-seeks-pardon-from-trump-for-money-laundering-violations\">pleaded guilty to failing to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program <\/a>and paid a penalty of $4.3 billion. He personally paid a $50 million fine and served nearly four months in prison last year after pleading guilty to the same charge as his company.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p ...>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/10\/48401631\/pro-trump-billionaire-slams-binance-founder-cz-zhaos-pardon-massive-fraud-is-happening\" alt=\"Pro-Trump\" billionaire slams binance founder zhao pardon: fraud is happening...>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent Trump supporter and Palantir (NASDAQ:PLTR) co-founder Joe Lonsdale has publicly criticized the president\u2019s decision to pardon\u00a0Changpeng \u201cCZ\u201d Zhao, the co-founder of\u00a0Binance. \u2018POTUS Advised Terribly On This,\u2019 Says Lonsdale Lonsdale took to X on Thursday to say: \u201cPOTUS has been\u00a0terribly advised on this; it\u00a0makes it look like massive\u00a0fraud is happening around him\u00a0in this area.\u201d He [&hellip;]<\/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-54651","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\/54651","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=54651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}