Sam Bankman-Fried used a Feb. 9 X thread to recast his criminal case as “Biden’s political lawfare,” aligning himself with Donald Trump and former FTX executive Ryan Salame and — in tone if not in name — making a bid for a future pardon. What SBF posted - SBF opened by framing the dispute as a matter of procedure, not facts: “Rule No. 1 of Biden’s political lawfare: Don’t let them present evidence,” he wrote, claiming prosecutors and the court curtailed what the jury was allowed to hear. - He repeatedly singled out Judge Lewis Kaplan, alleging the judge “rubber-stamped everything Biden’s DOJ wanted” and “made sure I couldn’t show the jury the truth.” - The “truth,” in SBF’s account, is a solvency narrative: “So they lied, said I stole billions of dollars and bankrupted FTX. But the money was always there and FTX was always solvent.” He said he was “prohibited” from arguing FTX’s solvency or “even mentioning lawyers” at trial. - SBF linked to a court filing he attributed to his prosecutor, “Sassoon,” calling it “a 70-page document on all the evidence they didn’t want the jury to see” and framed the exclusion as part of a broader effort to “silence the truth.” Trump, Salame and the political frame - A sizable portion of the thread drew parallels to Trump’s New York hush-money bookkeeping case. SBF described that prosecution as a routine accounting dispute turned criminal: “Charged him with 34 crimes over his bookkeeping of an NDA expense—should it be legal, campaign, or personal?” - He also compared restrictions imposed on Trump to his own pre-trial experience: “Biden’s DOJ silenced me, too—getting Judge Kaplan to gag and then jail me before trial. President Trump also had Kaplan as a judge,” SBF wrote. - SBF amplified complaints from Ryan Salame about licensing advice and charging decisions, alleging prosecutors used pressure tactics to push a plea — including claims involving Salame’s fiancée. Those assertions in the thread were presented without supporting documentation beyond links to Salame’s own posts. Reaction - The thread drew sharp pushback on social media and from industry figures, who read it less as legal analysis than a political appeal. Trader Bob Loukas wrote: “You’re a Delusional criminal who is now angling for a pardon.” Attorney Ariel Givner was more blunt: “We GET it. You want a pardon from Trump.” Market note - At press time, FTT traded at $0.3021. Bottom line SBF’s X thread reframes his legal battle as part of a broader partisan fight and leans heavily on claims of excluded evidence and judicial bias. Critics saw it as an explicit political pitch; supporters might view it as an attempt to reopen narrative gaps from the trial. Read more AI-generated news on: undefined/news

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