SBF wants Trump to know he was working with Republicans all along
Sam Bankman-Fried says he donated more money to Republican causes than previously reported and that he no longer plants his political flag on the center-left as he apparently attempts to curry favor with Donald Trump’s administration. A year ago, Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison for multiple felony offenses, including wire fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, and money laundering conspiracy, all tied to the collapse of his crypto exchange FTX. Before his spectacular downfall, he was the second largest donor to Biden’s election campaign, behind only Mike Bloomberg — a result, he says, of “not wanting the Democratic Party to become the party of Bernie Sanders.” However, speaking to The New York Sun from Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, Bankman-Fried claims that “he had been giving to Republicans conservative causes a lot more than had been public” and that he had also “ been working with Republicans a lot more than had been previously thoug...