My imaginary hat (I rarely wear one) is off to Time Magazine for departing from the song and dance provided by most mainstream media, and telling us who and what disgraced ponzi-schemer sam bankman-fried contributed all those millions of dollars to.
From Nik Popli’s article, we have this:
Bankman-Fried contributed more than $70 million to election campaigns in less than 18 months, placing him among the nation’s top political donors. He personally gave at least $40 million to politicians and political action committees ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, mostly to Democrats and liberal-leaning groups, making him the second overall top donor to Democrats, only behind George Soros, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Bankman-Fried also donated a significant amount to fundraising committees and super PACs affiliated with both parties. The biggest single recipient was Protect Our Future, a Democratic-aligned super PAC that claims it was “designed to help elect candidates who will be champions for pandemic prevention.” The group received $27 million from Bankman-Fried, and supports effective altruism, a philanthropic movement premised on the use of reason and data to allocate money, which Bankman-Fried also supports. Beneficiaries of Protect Our Future include Carrick Flynn, who lost a Democratic primary in Oregon’s 6th District, George Rep. Lucy McBath and Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett.
Bankman-Fried also gave a combined $7 million to the two main super PACs supporting Democratic candidates for Congress in the 2022 elections.
In addition, he personally contributed the individual maximum of $5,800 to more than a dozen members of Congress including Senators Debbie Stabenow, a Michigan Democrat, and Sen. John Boozman, an Arkansas Republican, who lead the Senate Agriculture Committee, which has a role in regulating cryptocurrency. Stabenow and Boozman introduced a bill together this year that was intended to give FTX a path toward regulatory compliance in the U.S.
Other lawmakers that received maximum donations from Bankman-Fried include Democratic Senators Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, and Cory Booker of New Jersey; and Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine.
In total, federal election filings show that Stabenow and Hassan were the candidates to receive the most money directly from Bankman-Fried this year, at over $20,000 each.
Although federal election receipts show that Bankman-Fried donated almost exclusively to Democrats, he claimed on a November phone call with YouTuber Tiffany Fong that he donated an equal amount to Republicans and Democrats.
“All my Republican donations were dark,” he said, referring to political donations that are not publicly disclosed in FEC filings. “The reason was not for regulatory reasons, it’s because reporters freak the f—k out if you donate to Republicans. They’re all super liberal, and I didn’t want to have that fight.”
There you have it. Next to the U.S. hating, left wing billionaire and major source of donations to defund-the-police Attorneys General, george soros, sam bankman-fried is the single most prolific $$$ource of money for Democrats.
But despite the fact that “federal election receipts show that Bankman-Fried donated almost exclusively to Democrats”, he claims he gave as much to Republicans as well. He just didn’t tell anyone about it.
Let me pretend you have an IQ in single-digit territory and ask the obvious question: if bankman-fried contributed almost $70 to Republicans in a single election cycle, is there any possible way he could have hidden it; that no one would have noticed this amount flowing in to Republicans?
You can stop laughing derisively any time now.
Put another way, bankman-fried’s attempt to pretend the illegally-gained money he contributed was anything but an enormous treasure-trove for Democrats isn’t going to fly.
Now, grow old with me waiting for the presently-constructed “Department Of Justice” (it really does require quotation marks these days) to do anything about it.
Hey, maybe they can put david weiss on it. It will give him something to do while he’s waiting for the statute of limitations to run out on whatever else they find about hunter biden.
