Thread 1454355

Billionaire Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to enabling money laundering before president freed him last month

Trump says he doesn’t know who crypto tycoon is despite having pardoned him

Billionaire Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to enabling money laundering before president freed him last month
Oliver Milman
Mon 3 Nov 2025 15.15 CET

Donald Trump has said that he doesn’t know who Changpeng Zhao is despite pardoning the billionaire founder of cryptocurrency exchange Binance in October.

The US president was asked in a 60 Minutes interview that aired on Sunday why he pardoned Zhao, who is also known as “CZ”, for enabling money laundering despite him causing “significant harm to … national security” according to federal prosecutors.

“OK, are you ready? I don’t know who he is,” Trump told Norah O’Donnell, the host of CBS News’ 60 Minutes. Trump added that he did not remember meeting Zhao, had “no idea who he is” other than being told that the multibillionaire crypto boss was a victim of a “witch-hunt” by former president Joe Biden.

In 2023, Zhao pleaded guilty to charges that he broke rules designed to stop money laundering – after Binance allegedly failed to report suspicious transactions with organizations including Hamas and al-Qaida.
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Zhao apologized, paid a $50m fine and had served nearly four months in prison before being pardoned by Trump, with the White House saying he was prosecuted due to Biden’s “war on cryptocurrency”.

Trump has said he wants the US to be a leader in cryptocurrency and Zhao, in thanking the president for his pardon, promised on X to “do everything we can to help make America the Capital of Crypto”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/03/trump-changpeng-zhao-cz-pardon-crypto

>>1454355 (OP)
Zhao has kept his stake in Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, which has had business dealings with World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency company owned by Trump’s family.

Trump’s failure to recall his pardon for Zhao comes amid an extensive Republican pursuit of the prior Biden administration for allegedly covering up the former president’s mental and physical decline as well as for his autopen signatures – which come from a machine that replicates a person’s signature and allows someone to more easily sign large quantities of documents.

On 28 October, the Republican-led House oversight committee released a report centering on Biden and autopen signatures. The Republican committee chair, James Comer of Kentucky, furthermore maintained that the use of autopen was “one of the biggest political scandals in US history”. Some Republicans want pardons signed by autopen under Biden to be voided.

It is unclear whether Trump’s pardon for Zhao was signed by autopen. Some of those pardoned by Trump for their role in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol after the lost the 2020 White House election to Biden have also claimed that Trump did not sign their pardons at all.

Trump pardons whomever Trump is told to pardon

>MUH BIDEN AUTOPEN!
Every accusation is a confession with the right.

>>1454355 (OP)
>Billionaire Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to enabling money laundering before president freed him last month
>Trump says he doesn’t know who crypto tycoon is despite having pardoned him
A goldfish would do a better job as POTUS, as Trump has a shorter memory than one

>>1454361
>>1454373
I think it's really funny for all the accusations of Biden being a demented puppet who would sign whatever he was asked to sign, not once can I recall him ever outright admitting he had no idea who someone he pardoned even was like Trump just did.

>>1454355 (OP)
Pardoning Canadians is always a mistake.

>>1454387
Did you read the rest of that paragraph, or non?

>>1454430
>I have no idea who he is, but he was convicted while Biden was in office so I let him go
You're right. It's actually worse with full context.

>>1454430
>other than being told that the multibillionaire crypto boss was a victim of a “witch-hunt” by former president Joe Biden.
So literally all it takes to get a pardon from retard in chief is to pay off someone to tell him a sob story "uh de evil joeb biden witch hunted me" and he'll fucking do it without even checking who it is?

>>1454430
>or non
>non
Did you go to English classes or not?

>>1454355 (OP)
You know, I can genuinely believe that. His brain is only technically functional.

>>1454436
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/french-english/non

>>1454432
Maybe. I haven't reviewed the facts of the case.
But I am sort of upset he let a Canadian out of prison. All Canadians should be encourage to take part in MAID.

Biden pardoned dozens of felons and traitors before he left

>>1454453
>b-bubut Biden
Every single time

>>1454465
I accept your concession, troon jeet shill

>>1454466
>troon jeet shill
How does this make sense to you?

>>1454467
It's a broken bot

>non
>>1454449
Going to English classes or not, >>1454430?

>>1454470
Que?

>>1454398
That's the entire hypocrisy of the whole thing. Every single thing Republicans do is like this.

>>1454492
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Y_p8-LbY4

>>1454355 (OP)
He did it to troll the libs. It's vengeance for the thousands of criminals the Biden Crime Family pardoned. I see from the reaction in this thread that he was successful.

>>1454576
he's a chinese asset to own the libs?

>>1454576
>>1454578
The Chinese own Trump >>1453999

>>1454578
its drug induced coping while watching dems sweep off year elections

>>1454355 (OP)
>allegedly failed to report suspicious transactions
Not a crime.

>>1454578
>>1454579
Changpeng Zhao (Chinese: 赵长鹏; pinyin: Zhào Chángpéng; born 1977), commonly known as CZ, is a Canadian businessman. Zhao is the co-founder and former CEO of Binance.[2] According to Forbes, Zhao is the richest
>Canadian

>>1454600
>...with organizations including Hamas and al-Qaida.
Funding terrorism sure fucking is.

And Xi Jinping is Chinese
He owns Trump >>1453999

>>1454355 (OP)
>Bitches for months that Biden didn’t know who he was pardoning
>Pardons people that he doesn’t know the first thing about
Too bad republicans will never call out his hypocrisy

>>1454627
Trump doesn't know who he's pardoning, Johnson doesn't know Trump is pardoning people, and I'll assume JD Vance doesn't even know Trump is president.

>>1454576
>thousands of criminals
name 100 criminals pardoned by the Biden 'crime family'.

>>1454654
He's referring to the pot offense pardons, lmao.

>>1454718
Republicans are like the Japanese. Paedophilia is okay but god help you if they catch you with a baggie of weed.

>>1454757
Weed is legal in many Republican states, FYI.

When a republican gets weed he turns into a republicant. No weed for maga slaves.

>>1454718
Lol, ok we're not counting those.

>>1454786
So's child marriage.

>>1454873
Not really. Might want to do a more current fagcheck, faggot.

>>1454873
>So's child marriage.
No it's not anon, I hope this news doesn't affect your plans.

The Republicans refuse to make child marriages illegal in certain states, thus the GOP: Gang Of Pedophiles
Which includes those who refuse to stop supporting those pedos