New Book Claims That Alleged Fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried Wanted to Pay Trump $5 Billion Not to Run for President

Alleged fraudster and Democratic megadonor Sam Bankman-Fried looked into paying former President 👤Donald Trump not to run for reelection in 2020, according to an excerpt from the upcoming book “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon” by author Michael Lewis.

Bankman-Fried, who was then the multibillionaire CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, investigated the legality of bribing then-President Trump with money to not run for the presidency again, according to the excerpt obtained by The Washington Post. Lewis claimed that Bankman-Fried’s associates managed to establish a covert communication line with Trump’s camp and found that the then-president could potentially be swayed for $5 billion; it’s unclear who the individuals were, and whether they contacted Trump himself.

“Isn’t Sam Bankman-Fried a liar who has been outed as a fraudster and someone that can’t be trusted,” Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung told Business Insider regarding the report.Moreover, Bankman-Fried also simultaneously intended to contribute between $15 and $30 million to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to beat “Trumpier” candidates in 2020 Senate races, according to the book. He believed that Trump was an “existential threat to humanity,” according to the book excerpt.

Bankman-Fried contributed more than $39 million to support Democrat-aligned causes, and was the second-largest individual contributor to such causes during the 2022 midterm election cycle, according