Okay, I was already planning on buying Michael Lewis' new book, but now I'm even more excited. The book covers the FTX scandal as well as, apparently, Sam Bankman-Fried considering paying off Donald Trump to not run for reelection in 2020. Crazy what you can do with a heavily-inflated cryptocurrency at your hands.
FIVE BILLION DOLLARS!
That was offer according to Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short.
In the excerpt published in the Washington Post, Michael Lewis, the author of "Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon," said Bankman-Fried at the time was planning to give $15 million to $30 million to Republican Senator Mitch McConnell to defeat the "Trumpier" candidates in the Senate races.
"On a separate front, he explained to me, as the plane descended into Washington, he was exploring the legality of paying Donald Trump himself not to run for president," Lewis wrote.
There's no telling why Trump denied the offer, but it's telling that this was even an option for the corrupt Bankman-Fried.
This whole FTX scandal is just fascinating, and we all knew there were politicians involved in the corruption. We just haven't quite come to realize to what extent our political leaders were involved.
The fact that Bankman-Fried assumed he could buy Donald Trump tells me he was already buying other politicians. I'll wait until the book comes out to make any serious allegations, but boy, oh boy, does this smell fishy.
5 billion bucks to buy the president of the United States.
It makes you wonder how much he paid for the other politicians, doesn't it?
A little background on Bankman-Fried before I go:
Bankman-Fried, the founder of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has pleaded not guilty to seven counts of fraud and conspiracy stemming from the cryptocurrency exchange's collapse in November 2022.
He faces a statutory maximum of 110 years in prison, though any sentence would be determined by the judge overseeing the case based on a range of factors, and he would likely get far less.
I'll leave you this link to an explainer of the FTX scandal as well.
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