{"id":57479,"date":"2025-11-09T12:01:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T12:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=57479"},"modified":"2025-11-09T12:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T12:01:42","slug":"binance-founder-cz-surprised-by-pardon-denies-business-links-to-trump-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=57479","title":{"rendered":"Binance Founder CZ Surprised By Pardon, Denies Business Links To Trump Family"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Binance co-founder Changpeng \u201cCZ\u201d Zhao has denied any relationship with United States President Donald Trump and his family. This comes in response to the chatter surrounding Trump\u2019s pardon<\/a> of him in October 2025.<\/p>\n

CZ Says He Has Never Met President Trump<\/b><\/h2>\n

In an interview with FOX News<\/a> on Friday, November 7, Zhao revealed that he was \u201ca little bit surprised\u201d by the US President\u2019s decision to pardon him. The Binance co-founder pleaded guilty to anti-money-laundering (AML) violations in 2023.<\/p>\n

While the former CEO of the world\u2019s largest cryptocurrency exchange agreed to a significant $4.3 billion fine on behalf of his company, he was forced to resign and received a four-month jail sentence. CZ was released from prison in September 2024, but this presidential pardon expunges his record of a criminal conviction.<\/p>\n

Although multiple reports have alleged that Binance and CZ lobbied through business deals for the co-founder\u2019s pardon, there have been several rebuttals to such controversial claims. In a November 3 interview, Trump stated<\/a> that he did not know the crypto founder, crediting his sons for pushing for the pardon.<\/p>\n

Now, CZ has come forward to state that he has no business links with the Trump family or their cryptocurrency project, World Liberty Financial. \u201cThat\u2019s completely not accurate. There\u2019s no deal, there has never been any discussions. It\u2019s as simple as that,\u201d the Binance leader said.<\/p>\n

CZ also addressed his decision to plead guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act, including failure to implement adequate anti-money-laundering measures at Binance. The prominent crypto founder said, \u201cthe best way to confront the problem and solve it head-on.\u201d<\/p>\n

US Leading In Crypto Regulation: CZ<\/b><\/h2>\n

According to the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, Trump\u2019s decision to grant clemency to crypto figures<\/a> was a way to \u201cofficially end the Biden administration\u2019s war on the cryptocurrency industry.\u201d In the FOX interview, Zhao highlighted the GENIUS Act as a move in the right direction by the United States regarding leading crypto regulation.<\/p>\n

The former Binance CEO believes that the increased regulatory clarity is an excellent development for the crypto industry. \u201cI think in the last administration, even when I was charged and even when I pleaded guilty, there wasn\u2019t any clear regulatory framework for crypto in the US, so I think now it\u2019s getting much clearer, and [the] US is definitely leading,\u201d CZ added.<\/p>\n

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Binance co-founder Changpeng \u201cCZ\u201d Zhao has denied any relationship with United States President Donald Trump and his family. This comes in response to the chatter surrounding Trump\u2019s pardon of him in October 2025. CZ Says He Has Never Met President Trump In an interview with FOX News on Friday, November 7, Zhao revealed that he […]<\/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-57479","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\/57479","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=57479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}