{"id":1738825,"date":"2022-11-15T05:03:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T10:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1738825"},"modified":"2022-11-15T05:04:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T10:04:18","slug":"sam-bankman-fried-is-not-alone-some-of-historys-greatest-monsters-were-democratic-megadonors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sam-bankman-fried-is-not-alone-some-of-historys-greatest-monsters-were-democratic-megadonors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Bankman-Fried Is Not Alone: Some of History\u2019s Greatest Monsters Were Democratic Megadonors"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsam-bankman-fried-is-not-alone-some-of-historys-greatest-monsters-were-democratic-megadonors%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1738825&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><em>&#8220;If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.&#8221; \u2014 Sir Isaac Newton<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened<\/strong>: Sam Bankman-Fried, the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/beleaguered-crypto-billionaire-was-hobnobbing-at-white-house-just-six-months-ago\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">digital guru<\/a> who earlier this year pledged to spend as much as $1 billion in support of Democratic candidates, is under federal investigation after the cryptocurrency exchange he founded declared bankruptcy amid accusations of fraud and financial mismanagement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters<\/strong>: Bankman-Fried is the latest in a long line of\u00a0Democratic megadonors to be accused of egregious criminal acts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>By the numbers<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>$5,700,000<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 The amount Bankman-Fried, aka &#8220;SBF&#8221; or &#8220;the next Warren Buffet,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/individual-contributions\/?contributor_name=sam+bankman-fried&#038;two_year_transaction_period=2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">donated<\/a> to President Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign and other Democratic-aligned entities in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>$40,000,000<\/strong> \u2014 The amount SBF donated to political candidates and committees during the 2022 election cycle, the vast majority of which were aligned with the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>$15,600,000,000<\/strong>\u2014 Bankman-Fried&#8217;s estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/hero-to-zero-dems-newest-megadonor-faceplants-on-election-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">net worth<\/a> on Nov. 8, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>$0<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 His estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/from-sixteen-billion-to-zero-dem-megadonor-sam-bankman-fried-has-lost-all-his-money\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">net worth<\/a> on Nov. 11, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Democratic Party Hall of Dishonor<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Assuming he is ultimately charged and convicted of orchestrating a financial scam, Bankman-Fried will live in infamy alongside the following Democratic megadonors of degenerate disrepute\u2014the giants upon whose shoulders he once stood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harvey Weinstein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The once-beloved Hollywood mogul <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/democrats-liberals-used-to-love-harvey-weinstein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">donated<\/a> almost $600,000 to Democratic candidates and committees since 2000, and hosted a number of celebrity fundraisers for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Serving a 23-year sentence for rape and currently on trial for multiple sex crimes. Reporting suggests Weinstein&#8217;s atrocious behavior was an open secret in Hollywood. The serial offender routinely exploited his influence among Democratic politicians and their allies in the media to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/farrow-weinstein-leveraged-clinton-connections-to-kill-sexual-harassment-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bury stories<\/a> about his predatory behavior. In 2017, Weinstein reached out to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/antia-dunn-weinstein-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anita Dunn<\/a>, a senior adviser to President Joe Biden, for &#8220;damage control advice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeffrey Epstein\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The prolific pedophilia aficionado\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/jeffrey-epstein-donated-dollar10k-to-house-democrats-in-october-they-frantically-sent-it-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">donated<\/a> more than $150,000 to Democratic candidates and committees, including a $10,000 contribution as recently as 2018, several months before his arrest on sex trafficking charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 He courted prominent <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/margaret-sullivan-book-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">journalists<\/a>, cavorted with liberal billionaires, and wrote checks to Ivy League universities. Former president Bill Clinton took several trips on Epstein&#8217;s private jet, aka &#8220;The Lolita Express.&#8221; (Not to be confused with <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/blog\/hillary-clintons-old-friends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic megadonor<\/a> Ron Burkle&#8217;s private jet, aka &#8220;Air F\u2014k One,&#8221; on which Clinton has also flown many times.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The sex criminal &#8220;hanged&#8221; &#8220;himself&#8221; in his jail cell in 2019. Earlier this year, his female accomplice\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-clinton-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a> received a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happened: Sam Bankman-Fried, the digital guru who earlier this year pledged to spend as much as $1 billion in support of Democratic candidates, is under federal investigation after the cryptocurrency exchange he founded declared bankruptcy amid accusations of fraud and financial mismanagement.<br \/>\nThe post Sam Bankman-Fried Is Not Alone: Some of History\u2019s Greatest Monsters Were Democratic Megadonors appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1738828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1738828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}