It would disgust decent people everywhere if SBF got a pardon. So I’d say he has a shot! The only question is: what can he offer Trump? Advice on crypto scams, perhaps?

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    The requirements to get pardoned under the current administration are:

    • Be white
    • Be rich or high profile
    • Be generally aligned with the right
    • Claim your incarceration was politically motivated (it almost never is)

    Your crime does not matter. Trump will accuse foreign refugees of being drug dealers and violent criminals, then pardon drug dealers and violent criminals if they were white and high profile enough (Google Ross Ulbricht as an example).

    So, all things considered, SBF seems to qualify!

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      Be generally aligned with the right

      It’s gotta be authoritarian right though… I can’t see a pro-immigration, pro-choice, pro-gun, anti-tariff, anti-corruption (generally pro-freedom, that thing republicans pretend to like) libertarian getting anywhere with trump, it wouldn’t surprise me if a tankie got along better given they’re into most of the things trump likes

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    The only question is: what can he offer Trump? Advice on crypto scams, perhaps?

    Another few pumps (followed by dumps) of Trump’s meme coins.

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    The podcast he went on was utterly bonkers lol. He was complaining that the Democrats didn’t get him out of legal trouble even tho he donated so much money to them. So now he’s switching sides to Republican since they actually take care of their criminals lol.

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    After all the president, while pretending to care about fentanyl pardoned THE guy that did the most work in facilitating online sales of fentanyl