"NORAH O'DONNELL, CBS NEWS HOST: The Trump family is now perhaps more associated with cryptocurrency than real estate. You and your sons, Don Jr. and Eric, have formed World Liberty Financial with the Witkoff family. DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Right. N. O'DONNELL: helping to make your family millions of dollars. Its in that context that I do want to ask you about crypto's richest man, a billionaire known as CZ. He pled guilty in 2023 to violating anti-money laundering laws."
"MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell went off on President Donald Trump's pleas of ignorance over a pardon he granted, saying such gaffes would immediately be met with demands for impeachment and screaming from reporters if former President Joe Biden made them. Trump has repeatedly insisted he doesn't know anything about Changpeng Zhao, the crypto magnate he pardoned most recently in a lengthy 60 Minutes interview that was cut down by almost two-thirds for broadcast."
President Donald Trump issued a pardon for cryptocurrency magnate Changpeng Zhao, who pled guilty in 2023 to violating anti-money laundering laws. Trump has repeatedly said he does not know Zhao and framed the prosecution as a Biden "witch hunt," and a broadcast interview about the pardon was significantly shortened for air. Critics argued that claims of ignorance regarding who was pardoned and the circumstances around the pardon would have prompted immediate impeachment demands and intense media uproar if a Democratic president had behaved similarly. The case references Binance's role in facilitating a major transaction and national security concerns.
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