{"id":99514,"date":"2026-06-08T16:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=99514"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:33:08","slug":"sam-bankman-fried-files-request-for-presidential-pardon-what-do-prediction-markets-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=99514","title":{"rendered":"Sam Bankman-Fried Files Request For Presidential Pardon: What Do Prediction Markets Say?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Sam Bankman-Fried<\/strong> officially filed for a presidential pardon Monday, even as the White House pointed back to Trump\u2019s January statement that he has no plans to grant one.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SBF Spent A Year Courting Trump On X And Got Nothing Back<\/h3>\n<p>Bankman-Fried <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-06-08\/ftx-co-founder-bankman-fried-formally-applies-for-trump-pardon\">submitted<\/a> his application through the Justice Department\u2019s Office of the Pardon Attorney, the standard federal channel used by thousands of people annually.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, the 34-year-old has been active on X, publicly praising Trump\u2019s actions including the pardon of former Honduran President <strong>Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong>, in what appeared to be a deliberate effort to attract executive attention.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy has not worked. Trump told the New York Times in January he had no plans to pardon Bankman-Fried.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When asked Monday about the formal filing, a White House spokesperson simply &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/06\/53065282\/sam-bankman-fried-files-request-for-presidential-pardon-what-do-prediction-markets-say?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Sam\" bankman-fried files request for presidential pardon: what do prediction markets say>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Bankman-Fried officially filed for a presidential pardon Monday, even as the White House pointed back to Trump\u2019s January statement that he has no plans to grant one. SBF Spent A Year Courting Trump On X And Got Nothing Back Bankman-Fried submitted his application through the Justice Department\u2019s Office of the Pardon Attorney, the standard [&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-99514","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\/99514","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=99514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}