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Pascale Davies

US President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao

US President Donald Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, a White House official said on Thursday.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that Trump had "exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon for Mr. Zhao, who was prosecuted by the Biden Administration in their war on cryptocurrency".

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