Fox News demanded that presidents know whom they pardoned. Then Trump said he didn’t know the crypto tycoon he pardoned.
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In a highly anticipated interview on 60 Minutes, President Donald Trump claimed that he knew “nothing about” the pardon of Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange with ties to his sons’ cryptocurrency venture, World Liberty Financial. Trump also said that he didn’t know who Zhao was; that he knew Zhao “got a four-month sentence or something like that”; and that he “heard it was a Biden witch hunt."
You might think that this story would be catnip for Fox News, which heavily attacked Joe Biden’s use of the autopen to sign pardons in his final months in office, accusing the former president of being unaware of who he pardoned. Some network personalities even argued that it was grounds to invalidate Biden’s pardons. Yet, since October 22 through the morning of November 6, Fox News has spent 1 hour and 23 minutes discussing Biden’s use of the autopen while airing only 3 minutes of coverage on Zhao’s pardon.
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