The president, who has been so bitter about Biden’s pardons, suddenly forgot the billionaire whom he pardoned eight days ago. “Coincidentally,” the billionaire’s company helped fuel the Trump family’s crypto boom just months ago. His selective amnesia clearly reeks of a blockchain of corruption, and he’s not even hiding it.
In Oct. 2025, Donald Trump granted a presidential pardon to Changpeng Zhao, better known as CZ, the founder of Binance. His company is the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, but was caught in a money laundering case. Zhao had pleaded guilty in 2023 to violating U.S. anti-money-laundering laws, admitting that Binance allowed transactions tied to criminal and terrorist groups. Prosecutors called it a “significant threat to national security,” and sentenced him to four months in prison in April 2024.
