Impossible to prove and one has to ask what his motivation is for stating this.
The fallen crypto billionaire, who is set to stand trial over the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was willing to put up $5 billion to keep Trump out of the 2024 presidential race, having deemed him an “existential” threat to democracy, Lewis
told “60 Minutes” in an interview broadcast Sunday.
“He took the view that all the big existential problems are gonna require the United States government to be involved to solve ’em,” Lewis said on the news show. “And if the democracy is undermined, all these problems are less likely to be solved. And he saw Trump trying to undermine the democracy, and he thought, ‘Trump belongs on the list of existential risks.’”
He openly made
$40 million in political donations in 2022, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission, and though an overwhelming majority of his official donations went to Democrats, Bankman-Fried claimed he had given just as much to Republicans off the books.
“Reporters freak the fuck out if you donate to a Republican, because they’re all super liberal,” he said in a
November 2022 interview. “And I didn’t want to have that fight, so I just made all the Republican ones dark.”
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