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Trump on Binance cryptocurrency tycoon he pardoned: "I don't know who he is"
President Trump told 60 Minutes in a wide-ranging interview that he doesn't know the billionaire cryptocurrency exchange founder who he recently pardoned. Mr. Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, a Chinese-born Canadian founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, last month, suggesting he was a victim of political prosecution by the Biden administration. "I don't know who he is," the president told correspondent Norah O'Donnell in the interview. "I know he got a four-month sentence or something like that. And I heard it was a Biden witch hunt." O'Donnell pointed out that Binance helped facilitate a $2 billion purchase ... (full story)