[dragonwriter]

> it's like saying Trump could pardon him on the way in

That is more likely than a Biden pardon: Trump in his first term was big on pardoning both financial criminals and people involved in political corruption on both sides of the aisle, and SBF is both a financial criminal and someone involved in political corruption (on both sides of the aisle, even), so he is something of an ideal Trump pardon candidate.

[harambae]

> That is more likely than a Biden pardon

Since SBF publicly despised Trump, donated vast sum to his opponents, and tried to architect Trump not being president I'd say that's less likely.

https://www.businessinsider.com/sbf-wanted-tom-brady-to-run-...

[xdavidliu]

I read in the Michael Lewis book that at one point SBF was floating the idea of paying Trump not to run, and asked around for what a reasonable number would be, and figured it would be around 50 billion