In the days following Democratic Party, to which he gave so much money. During his trial, prosecutors revealed a note in which Bankman-Fried reminded himself to “go on Tucker Carlsen [sic], come out as a republican.”
In his interview — in which the ex–Fox News host mostly wanted to gossip about the more famous detainee on Bankman-Fried’s unit.
“Are you hanging with Diddy? I think he’s in there with you,” Carlson asked of the rapper charged with sex trafficking. “He’s been kind to me,” Bankman-Fried said of his new friend.
“If someone told me three years ago that, Oh, you’d be hanging out with Diddy every day, I’d be like, That’s interesting; I wonder how that’s going to happen,” Bankman-Fried mused. “I guess he gets into crypto or something.”
Carlson, who hasn’t always been so nice to Bankman-Fried, then asked why none of the Democrats who received FTX donations came to his aid during his legal ordeal. Bankman-Fried said that around the time his company was exposed, he was starting to flirt more with the Republican Party — which he asserted “probably played a role” in the government’s prosecution of him.
Perhaps Bankman-Fried had forgotten how he was convicted for a dropping high-profile cases against Bankman-Fried’s un-incarcerated peers, he said that “there are a lot of good things” that President Donald Trump is doing to end the government’s “obstructive role for a decade” on crypto. Alas, he is missing out on the unregulated fun.
It’s possible that we may be hearing more from Bankeman-Fried. The New York Times pieces in the Washington Post suggesting Trump’s ideas aren’t all that bad. So far though, the plan has resulted in restrictions on his freedom. The Bureau of Prisons has clear rules about how prisoners can communicate with the outside world — rules that do not include going on video podcasts with influential hosts. After the interview with Carlson went online, Bankman-Fried was reportedly placed in solitary confinement.
