Why Trump Keeps Pardoning Crypto Criminals

Photo caption: November 2, 2022 – Changpeng Zhao, Co-Founder & CEO, Binance, at Media Village during day one of Web Summit 2022 at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. Photo credit: Ben McShane / Web Summit via Sportsfile / Flickr. CC BY 2.0.

Podcast – What Next: TBD. Episode – Why Trump Keeps Pardoning Crypto Criminals. Slate – November 2, 2025. Click here to view Transcript.

Speaker A: I want to start today by playing a testy little exchange from last week between President Trump and CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. Collins is asking the president about his decision to pardon Changpeng Zhao, better known as cz. CZ was the CEO of the crypto platform Binance, and he pled guilty to money laundering last year. Today, you pardoned the founder of Binance. Can you explain why you chose to pardon him? And did it have anything to do with his involvement? […]

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