{"id":57464,"date":"2025-11-09T03:46:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T03:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=57464"},"modified":"2025-11-09T03:46:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T03:46:31","slug":"pardoned-binance-founder-changpeng-zhao-slams-false-trump-family-link-allegations-calls-pardon-total-surprise-it-just-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=57464","title":{"rendered":"Pardoned Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao Slams &#8216;False&#8217; Trump Family Link Allegations, Calls Pardon Total Surprise: &#8216;It Just Happened&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Binance CEO <strong>Changpeng Zhao<\/strong> <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">stated that he had no connections to President\u00a0<strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u00a0or his sons and described his recent pardon as a &#8220;surprise,&#8221; pushing back against reports that linked<\/span> his release to political or business favors.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Zhao Denies Deal With Trump Sons&#8217; Crypto Firm<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On Friday, in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XW2bmwS3fkY\">interview<\/a> with Fox News&#8217;s Bret Baier on Special Report, Zhao dismissed claims that he or his representatives pursued a deal with <strong>World Liberty Financial<\/strong>, the cryptocurrency company led by <strong>Donald Trump Jr.<\/strong> and <strong>Eric Trump<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no deal, there has never been any discussions,&#8221; Zhao said. &#8220;It&#8217;s as simple as that.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He called the reports &#8220;categorically false&#8221; and said his lawyers had submitted a clemency petition months earlier without any indication it would be approved.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Trump, White House Defend Crypto Pardon Amid Scrutiny<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Zhao said he &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/11\/48741523\/pardoned-binance-founder-changpeng-zhao-slams-false-trump-family-link-allegations-calls-par?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Pardoned\" binance founder changpeng zhao slams trump family link allegations calls pardon total surprise: just happened>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao stated that he had no connections to President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0or his sons and described his recent pardon as a &#8220;surprise,&#8221; pushing back against reports that linked his release to political or business favors. Zhao Denies Deal With Trump Sons&#8217; Crypto Firm On Friday, in an interview with Fox News&#8217;s Bret Baier [&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-57464","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\/57464","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=57464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}