{"id":67084,"date":"2026-01-09T15:31:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=67084"},"modified":"2026-01-09T15:31:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:31:32","slug":"trump-pardoned-ross-ulbricht-and-changpeng-zhao-but-wont-touch-sbf-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=67084","title":{"rendered":"Trump Pardoned Ross Ulbricht And Changpeng Zhao, But Won&#8217;t Touch SBF \u2014 Here&#8217;s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> told The New York Times he will not pardon former FTX CEO <strong>Sam Bankman-Fried<\/strong>, who is serving 25 years for fraud and conspiracy, despite granting clemency to other crypto figures including <strong>Binance<\/strong> founder <strong>Changpeng \u201cCZ\u201d Zhao<\/strong> and <strong>Ross Ulbricht<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SBF\u2019s Parents Lobbied Trump\u2019s Orbit Without Success<\/h3>\n<p>Bankman-Fried\u2019s parents, former Stanford Law School professors <strong>Barbara Fried<\/strong> and <strong>Joseph Bankman<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/01\/08\/us\/trump-nyt-interview?campaign_id=190&amp;emc=edit_ufn_20260108&amp;instance_id=168996&amp;nl=from-the-times&amp;regi_id=259385888&amp;segment_id=213375&amp;user_id=ba4f88c24731247af4d2d75cbbbba1e1#trump-family-foreign-business-deals\">reportedly<\/a> met with lawyers and others in Trump\u2019s orbit attempting to secure a pardon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The lobbying campaign failed to sway Trump, who is a major political backer of the <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) and digital assets entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<p>SBF conducted a Republican-friendly media rehabilitation tour in recent months and repeatedly praised Trump\u2019s pardon of former Honduran president <strong>Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong> for cocaine importation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the strategy didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>Bankman-Fried donated $5.2 million to the Biden campaign in 2020, potentially creating political &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/01\/49814694\/trump-pardoned-ross-ulbricht-and-changpeng-zhao-but-wont-touch-sbf-heres-why?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Trump\" pardoned ross ulbricht and changpeng zhao but won touch sbf here why>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump told The New York Times he will not pardon former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, who is serving 25 years for fraud and conspiracy, despite granting clemency to other crypto figures including Binance founder Changpeng \u201cCZ\u201d Zhao and Ross Ulbricht. SBF\u2019s Parents Lobbied Trump\u2019s Orbit Without Success Bankman-Fried\u2019s parents, former Stanford Law School [&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-67084","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\/67084","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=67084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}