{"id":971814,"date":"2025-11-05T07:52:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=971814"},"modified":"2025-11-05T08:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:33:42","slug":"trump-says-he-doesnt-know-crypto-billionaire-he-pardoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/05\/trump-says-he-doesnt-know-crypto-billionaire-he-pardoned\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he doesn&#8217;t know crypto billionaire he pardoned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump last month granted a pardon to Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire founder of a cryptocurrency exchange who had pleaded guilty to money-laundering violations in 2023 and whose company struck a business deal in May involving the Trump family&#8217;s crypto venture. But now the president has claimed he did not know who Zhao was. <\/p>\n<p>Trump distanced himself from Zhao in an interview with &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; broadcast Sunday, during which he was questioned about the decision to pardon Zhao, who pleaded guilty in 2023 after being accused of money-laundering violations that allowed criminals to move money on his cryptocurrency exchange, Binance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump last month granted a pardon to Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire founder of a cryptocurrency exchange who had pleaded guilty to money-laundering violations in 2023 and whose company struck a business deal in May involving the Trump family&#8217;s crypto venture. But now the president has claimed he did not know who Zhao was. Trump distanced himself from Zhao in an interview with &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; broadcast Sunday, during which he was questioned about the decision to pardon Zhao, who pleaded guilty in 2023 after being accused of money-laundering violations that allowed criminals to move money on his cryptocurrency exchange, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}