{"id":247432,"date":"2025-10-24T01:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T01:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/247432\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T01:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T01:29:10","slug":"binance-founder-zhao-wins-trump-pardon-in-latest-clemency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/247432\/","title":{"rendered":"Binance Founder Zhao Wins Trump Pardon in Latest Clemency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/1624796D:CH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Binance <\/a>co-founder Changpeng Zhao has received a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/pardon\/media\/1416576\/dl?inline\" title=\"Executive Grant of Clemency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">pardon<\/a> from Donald Trump, one of the biggest moves yet by the president to fully embrace the crypto industry and give legal reprieves to some of its most prominent people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The move marks the latest act of clemency the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/0218390Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">White House<\/a> has granted to a crypto entrepreneur, underscoring how the Trump administration has positioned itself as a friend of the industry and how the president\u2019s family has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2025-07-11\/trump-s-crypto-link-with-binance-raises-conflict-of-interest-questions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">enriched itself from it<\/a>. Binance assisted one of its family ventures with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/terminal\/SZ9DGQDWX2PS\" title=\"Binance Aided Trump Crypto Firm Before Founder CZ Sought Pardon (1)\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs- whitespace-normal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-component=\"link\">launch of its stablecoinBloomberg Terminal<\/a>, which could yield tens of millions of dollars a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao has received a pardon from Donald Trump, one of the biggest moves yet by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[135159,28,13408,5905,135157,102,99437,2420,16675,111,34656,3123,135158],"class_list":["post-247432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-bitmex","tag-business","tag-crypto","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-cz-zhao","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-economic-sanctions","tag-government","tag-justice-department","tag-politics","tag-stablecoin","tag-white-house","tag-world-liberty-financial-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}