{"id":22700,"date":"2026-02-25T05:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/sam-bankman-frieds-social-media-campaign-fails-to-sway-trump-on-pardon\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T05:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:57:25","slug":"sam-bankman-frieds-social-media-campaign-fails-to-sway-trump-on-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/sam-bankman-frieds-social-media-campaign-fails-to-sway-trump-on-pardon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s social media campaign fails to sway Trump on pardon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">The White House has reaffirmed that former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried will not receive a presidential pardon, even as the disgraced crypto founder publicly courts President Donald Trump through a sustained social media campaign. <\/p>\n<div id=\"cn-block-summary-block_95a765e93cf35142fa0fbd400f7bcf57\" class=\"cn-block-summary\">\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__nav tabs\">\n        <span class=\"tabs__item is-selected\">Summary<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The White House reaffirmed that Sam Bankman-Fried will not receive a presidential pardon, despite his recent public appeals directed at Donald Trump.<\/li>\n<li>Bankman-Fried has used social media to criticize the Justice Department and align himself with Trump\u2019s rhetoric, in what observers see as a bid for clemency.<\/li>\n<li>Trump has previously stated he has no intention of pardoning the former FTX CEO, even as he has shown clemency toward other high-profile figures.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .cn-block-summary --><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s Trump appeals fall flat<\/h2>\n<p>A White House spokesperson reiterated to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/02\/24\/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-trump-pardon-binance-cz-crypto-tucker-carlson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">media<\/a> that Trump has no plans to grant clemency to Bankman-Fried, revealing the president\u2019s stance.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<p>Bankman-Fried, serving a 25-year sentence for fraud and conspiracy related to the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has in recent weeks taken to platforms like X to align himself with Trump\u2019s policies, criticize the judge who sentenced him, and lash out at his legal foes.<\/p>\n<p>The messaging, widely interpreted as an attempt to influence Trump\u2019s pardon calculus, also includes praise for conservative causes and disparagement of the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Under Biden, companies were forced offshore.<\/p>\n<p>Under <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a>, they&#8217;re welcome back in America.<\/p>\n<p>Insane regulation by Dems: require licenses, refuse to give them out. They literally couldn&#8217;t operate in America. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oh8lCQvRgC\">https:\/\/t.co\/oh8lCQvRgC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under President Trump, that&#8217;s\u2026 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GeM8kfeGhO\">pic.twitter.com\/GeM8kfeGhO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SBF (@SBF_FTX) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SBF_FTX\/status\/2021932965047988515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">February 12, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Despite these efforts, Trump\u2019s position remains firm. In January, the president declared that Bankman-Fried was not among the individuals he intended to pardon \u2014 a list that also excludes other high-profile figures such as former New Jersey senator Robert Menendez and Venezuela\u2019s Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. <\/p>\n<p>The White House statement reiterated this stance and suggested that the FTX founder\u2019s public overtures have not altered Trump\u2019s approach to clemency.<\/p>\n<p>Bankman-Fried\u2019s pivot toward Trump contrasts sharply with his earlier role as a major Democratic donor before FTX\u2019s collapse. The shift in tone has been accompanied by amplification across various accounts on social media, with critics dismissing the campaign as ineffective \u201csock-puppet\u201d activity.<\/p>\n<p>The president has granted pardons to several figures associated with the cryptocurrency world, including Binance founder Changpeng Zhao and BitMEX\u2019s leadership. Still, advisers and political observers view Bankman-Fried\u2019s bid as unlikely to succeed, given his controversial reputation and the severity of his crimes.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has reaffirmed that former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried will not receive a presidential pardon, even as the disgraced crypto founder publicly courts President Donald Trump through a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22701,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22700\/revisions\/22701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}