{"id":125008,"date":"2025-03-13T16:16:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=125008"},"modified":"2025-03-13T16:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:16:21","slug":"changpeng-zhao-denies-reports-of-a-binance-us-deal-defends-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=125008","title":{"rendered":"Changpeng Zhao denies reports of a Binance.US deal, defends Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsFormer Binance CEO Changpeng \u201cCZ\u201d Zhao has denied many of the claims in a Wall Street Journal report suggesting that he has been actively seeking a federal pardon from US President Donald Trump.<br \/>\nIn a March 13 X post following the release of the report, Zhao said he had no discussions regarding a business deal between the Trump family and Binance.US. He further denied claims that he wanted a presidential pardon from Trump, which could potentially allow him to assume an operational or management role at Binance.<br \/>\n\u201cNo felon would mind a pardon, especially being the only one in US history who was ever sentenced to prison for a single BSA [Bank Secrecy Act] charge,\u201d said CZ. \u201cFeels like the article is motivated as an attack on the President and crypto, and the residual forces of the \u2018war on crypto\u2019 from the last administration are still at work.\u201d<br \/>\nCZ\u2019s statement on a March 13 Wall Street Journal report. Source: Changpeng ZhaoThis is a developing story, and further information will be added as it becomes available.<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/changpeng-zhao-denies-binance-deal-defends-trump?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsFormer Binance CEO Changpeng \u201cCZ\u201d Zhao has denied many of the claims in a Wall Street Journal report suggesting that he has been actively seeking a federal pardon&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125008"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}