Although he’s currently in prison, Sam Bankman-Fried has managed to resurface. Not long after rumors emerged that his parents were investigating the possibility of securing a pardon for their son [I76], Bankman-Fried gave a jailhouse interview to the New York Sun. Bankman-Fried, a Biden megadonor who was second only to George Soros in political contributions to the Democratic party in 2021–22, now claims he too is a victim of the Biden-led “prosecutorial abuse” and “politicization of the DOJ” that Trump has alleged for years. Why would they target him? Because, he says, they learned he was “giving to” and “working with” Republicans and conservatives more than was previously known.34 In the interview, he also gave an approving nod to Elon Musk’s “chainsaw” approach to government cuts — something he would extrapolate upon in a 10-tweet long thread posted a few days later, where he apparently felt the need to make his return to Twitter in order to give his thought leader-style take on widespread firings of federal employees.35c The sudden about-face is a rather transparent and groveling attempt to suck up to Trump, but it’s not terribly surprising that Bankman-Fried’s once claimed strongly held moral beliefs have wilted in the face of the possibility of 25 long years in prison.