In the excerpt published in the Washington Post, Michael Lewis said Sam Bankman-Fried was planning to give $15-million to $30-million to Sen. Mitch McConnell to defeat the ‘Trumpier’ candidates in Senate races
Jailed former billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried considered paying former U.S. President Donald Trump to not run for re-election in 2020, according to an excerpt of a forthcoming book published on Sunday.
“On a separate front, he explained to me, as the plane descended into Washington, he was exploring the legality of paying Donald Trump himself not to run for president,” Lewis wrote. The excerpt did not discuss why Bankman-Fried, the founder of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, did not press ahead with the plans.
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