{"id":23246,"date":"2023-10-02T07:29:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T07:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/ftx-founder-mulled-giving-trump-5b-not-to-run-for-president-says-author\/"},"modified":"2023-10-02T07:29:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T07:29:59","slug":"ftx-founder-mulled-giving-trump-5b-not-to-run-for-president-says-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/ftx-founder-mulled-giving-trump-5b-not-to-run-for-president-says-author\/","title":{"rendered":"FTX founder mulled giving Trump $5B not to run for president, says author"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former FTX CEO Sam \u201cSBF\u201d Bankman-Fried once looked into paying Donald Trump not to run for United States president, according to Michael Lewis, the author of a new book documenting the rise and fall of SBF.<\/p>\n
Michael Lewis, author of Going Infinite:\u00a0The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon<\/em>, spoke about the former crypto billionaire and FTX founder in a 60 Minutes interview\u00a0on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n One of the revelations in the book is that SBF looked into paying Donald Trump not to run for president. \u201cThat only shocks you if you don\u2019t know Sam,\u201d said Lewis before adding:<\/p>\n \u201cSam\u2019s thinking that we could pay Donald Trump not to run for president […] like how much would it take?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cThe number that was kicking around was $5 billion,\u201d he added before saying that SBF was unsure if that number came directly from Donald Trump.<\/p>\n SBF was also looking into the legality of it, according to Lewis, who added that \u201cthey were still having these conversations when FTX blew up.\u201d <\/p>\n It just didn\u2019t happen because Bankman-Fried didn\u2019t have the $5 billion any longer, he added.<\/p>\n lol what??<\/p>\n SBF was trying to pay Trump $5 billion not to run again. pic.twitter.com\/ffbmfI3R9F<\/a><\/p>\n\n