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Sam Bankman-Fried thought there was a 5% chance he would be president, Caroline Ellison testified in his trial (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Sam Bankman-Fried thought there was a 5% chance he would be president, Caroline Ellison testified in his trial::Sam Bankman-Fried told Caroline Ellison that he could one day be the US president, she testified on Tuesday.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 10 months ago (2 children)

He's using the trump defense. "I might be president one day!" so the judge goes "Oh, in that case, we're done here, can't be prosecuting the future President of the United States, case dismissed" and then Einstein appears and gives SBF $100% and an bald eagle weeps a single tear and they go for pizza and cheeseburgers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You call this erotic fiction? Bwa!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

S...s..senpai....I can't hold it in anymore uWu

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is Scrotus short for Scrotius?

[–] PinkPanther 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

What do you think, cheese-grater (I shortened yours - you're welcome)?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 76 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think SBF has enough criminal allegations to be president. He hasn’t even grabbed someone by the pussy.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago

He did grab Caroline Ellison's pussy. But I guess if it's consensual it doesn't count.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

"I was playing bronze 3 league of legends during the debate"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My man had an overinflated ego...

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Worth noting that "con man" is short for "confidence man". Inflated egos help with the confidence needed to trick people out of money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the info.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They are lying you just got conned!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the info.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They are lying you just got conned!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the info.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

I think that'd happen to anyone when people are literally handing you billions of dollars.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Tell ya what. That’s a weird lookin’ gal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don't do meth yo

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's more to do with the courtroom artist doing mushrooms.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Edvard Munch has to pay the bills somehow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

She’s got a kinda primordial dwarf thing going on.

I’m really not turned on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think the courtroom artist improved upon what he had to work with.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Really earning the artist part of his title.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And SBF isn’t weird looking?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Oh yeah… he’s kinda wobbly looking too. Bad AI vision.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Given the other two she clearly pissed off the court illustrator somehow

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Heat must be turned way up. Wax is melting.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Sam Bankman-Fried aspired to one day become president of the United States, his ex-girlfriend and former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison testified in court Tuesday.

"He said there was a 5% chance he might be president someday," Ellison said on the witness stand in the criminal trial against the disgraced crypto mogul.

In her testimony in a downtown Manhattan federal courtroom, the 28-year-old Ellison said Bankman-Fried shared his ambitions with her during their relationship, which moved in fits and starts over the course of about three years.

The two met while working at Jane Street, a quantitative investment firm, while Ellison was an intern and Bankman-Fried was a trader.

Last week, Bankman-Fried's biographer, Michael Lewis, revealed that the FTX cofounder even considered paying Donald Trump not to run for office in the 2024 presidential election.

A spokesperson for Trump told Insider's Lloyd Lee that SBF has been "outed as a fraudster and someone that can't be trusted."

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Getting called a fraudster by Trump… damn that’s got to hurt. How much humiliation can SBF take? What’s next? His mom talks to the press about his bed wetting as a kid?

[–] Tar_alcaran 1 points 10 months ago

Getting called a fraudster by Trump… damn that’s got to hurt.

Trump call literally everyone who doesn't kiss his ass a liar ("Fraudster" is too hard to say).