Billionaire, Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao denied on Thursday the Wall Street Journal's report that he entered into talks with the family of United States President Donald Trump to take a stake in Binance and obtain a pardon from the president.
"More than 20 people have told me they were asked by the WSJ (and another media), 'Can you confirm that CZ made some deal for a pardon?' They probably asked hundreds of people to have 20 people reach out to me. In essence, they tried hard to make a story to report. Fact: I have had no discussions of a Binance US deal with … well, anyone," Zhao wrote on X.
"No felon would mind a pardon," he added, noting WSJ's article felt like an "attack" against Trump and crypto by the "residual forces from the last administration." He concluded by stating that he would be "happy to make crypto great everywhere" including both the US and the rest of the world.
