Conservative activist Laura Loomer ignited social media Wednesday with a viral post claiming that there’s a “massive and well-funded” effort to persuade President Donald Trump to pardon Sam Bankman-Fried, the convicted founder and former CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX. The allegation spread rapidly across X, riling up partisans who saw back-room corruption or another conspiracy in search of evidence. "There is a massive and well funded lobby effort to get this criminal pardoned," Loomer wrote on X. "He’s going to pretend like he was a victim of Joe Biden and the Democrats after he funded all of the left’s ... (full story)