Trump says he doesn’t know who crypto tycoon is despite having pardoned him

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Billionaire Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to enabling money laundering before president freed him last month

Donald Trump has said that he doesn’t know who Changpeng Zhao is despite pardoning the billionaire founder of cryptocurrency exchange Binance in October.

The US president was asked in a 60 Minutes interview that aired on Sunday why he pardoned Zhao, who is also known as “CZ”, for enabling money laundering despite him causing “significant harm to … national security” according to federal prosecutors.

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