{"id":71670,"date":"2026-02-10T07:31:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=71670"},"modified":"2026-02-10T07:31:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:31:37","slug":"convicted-ftx-ceo-sbf-cries-biden-lawfare-in-trump-pardon-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=71670","title":{"rendered":"Convicted FTX CEO SBF Cries \u2018Biden Lawfare\u2019 In Trump Pardon Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) used a new X thread on Feb. 9 to reframe his criminal case as \u201cBiden\u2019s political lawfare,\u201d positioning himself alongside Donald Trump and former FTX executive Ryan Salame in what read like a direct appeal for a future pardon.<\/p>\n

\u201cBiden\u2019s lawfare machine threw bogus charges at me, Donald Trump, Ryan Salame<\/a>, etc.,\u201d Bankman-Fried wrote<\/a>. \u201cTo make the charges stick, they prevented us from even being allowed to respond.\u201d He opened with a blunt claim about process rather than facts: \u201cRule No. 1 of Biden\u2019s political lawfare: Don\u2019t let them present evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

SBF Cries \u2018Gagged Trial,\u2019 Claims DOJ Hid Evidence<\/h2>\n

SBF\u2019s argument hinges on the idea that authorities and the court curtailed what the jury could hear. He repeatedly singled out Judge Lewis Kaplan, who presided over his trial, claiming the court \u201crubber-stamped everything Biden\u2019s DOJ wanted\u201d and \u201cmade sure I couldn\u2019t show the jury the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201ctruth,\u201d as SBF cast it, is a solvency narrative: \u201cSo they lied, said I stole billions of dollars and bankrupted FTX. But the money was always there and FTX was always solvent.\u201d He also argued that restrictions prevented him from advancing that line at trial, writing that he was \u201cprohibited\u201d from \u201cpointing out FTX was solvent<\/a>\u201d and from \u201ceven mentioning lawyers.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the thread, SBF linked to a court filing he said was authored by his prosecutor, \u201cSassoon,\u201d describing it as \u201ca 70-page document on all the evidence they didn\u2019t want the jury to see,\u201d and he framed the episode as part of a broader political effort to \u201csilence the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

A significant chunk of the thread is dedicated to Trump\u2019s New York hush-money bookkeeping case, which Bankman-Fried portrayed as a routine classification dispute blown into criminality. \u201cCharged him with 34 crimes over his bookkeeping of an NDA expense\u2014should it be legal, campaign, or personal?,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThese questions come up all the time when you\u2019re running a business, and it\u2019s often unclear.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then drew a parallel between court-imposed limits on Trump and his own pre-trial detention. \u201cThey then got the judge to impose a gag order on Donald Trump,\u201d he wrote. \u201cBiden\u2019s DOJ silenced me, too\u2014getting Judge Kaplan to gag and then jail me before trial. President Trump also had Kaplan as a judge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bankman-Fried also amplified Salame\u2019s complaints about licensing advice and charging decisions, alleging prosecutors leaned on pressure tactics to force a plea, including claims involving Salame\u2019s fianc\u00e9e, assertions presented as fact in the thread but not accompanied by supporting documentation beyond links to Salame\u2019s posts.<\/p>\n

The reaction underneath was unsparing, with multiple industry figures interpreting the thread less as a legal critique than a political pitch. \u201cYou\u2019re a Delusional criminal who is now angling for a pardon,\u201d wrote trader Bob Loukas. Attorney Ariel Givner was even more direct: \u201cWe GET it. You want a pardon from Trump<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

At press time, FTT traded at $0.3021.<\/p>\n

\"FTX<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) used a new X thread on Feb. 9 to reframe his criminal case as \u201cBiden\u2019s political lawfare,\u201d positioning himself alongside Donald Trump and former FTX executive Ryan Salame in what read like a direct appeal for a future pardon. \u201cBiden\u2019s lawfare machine threw bogus charges at me, Donald Trump, Ryan Salame, etc.,\u201d […]<\/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-71670","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\/71670","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=71670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}