{"id":38377,"date":"2026-08-03T09:43:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T09:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitcoinwisdom.com\/?p=38377"},"modified":"2026-08-03T09:43:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T09:43:40","slug":"will-the-white-house-return-sbfs-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinwisdom.com\/it\/will-the-white-house-return-sbfs-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"La Casa Bianca restituir\u00e0 le donazioni di SBF?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The White House has offered no real answers on how it plans to handle Bankman-Fried&#8217;s donations.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sam Bankman Fried made heavy donations to President Biden&#8217;s campaign in 2020.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The bulk of SBF&#8217;s donations went to Democrats<\/strong>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Sam Bankman-Fried built a reputation as one of the biggest donors in modern American politics, with the White House also receiving a fair share of his supposed benevolence. However, the 30-year-old\u2019s empire has not only crumbled but also his public image as a community-supporting genius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bankman-Fried was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinwisdom.com\/ftx-founder-arrested-at-us-governments-request\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arrested<\/a>&nbsp;by officials in the Bahamas following the request of the US government. However, the White House has stayed silent on whether it would return SBF\u2019s 2020 donations to President Joe Biden\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An Associated Press reporter, Zeke Miller, asked the White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, during a press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e7N30Ktx7l0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">briefing<\/a> if the government would return the money donated to his last campaign. However, Miller got no tangible response from the press secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miller also asked if the President calls on all &#8220;politicians who got campaign donations that may have come from customer money to return those funds?\u201d Refusing to give any response, the press secretary said she was \u201ccovered here by the Hatch Act.\u201d The Hatch Act is a federal law that forbids anyone working for the executive arm\u00a0of government from getting involved in political campaigning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jean-Pierre added that she was &#8220;limited on what I can say, and anything that\u2019s connected to political contributions from here I would refer you to the DNC on that.&#8221; When questioned about the president&#8217;s views on Bankman-Fried&#8217;s political\u00a0contributions, Jean-Pierre declined to comment, saying &#8220;even [the president\u2019s] thoughts about the contributions, donations. I cannot speak about that from here.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to visitor logs, Biden\u2019s top adviser, Steve Ricchetti, hosted Bankman-Fried to at least two West Wing meetings this year. It\u2019s unknown who else he might have run into on the visits on April 22 and May 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Federal Election Commission records, Bankman-Fried donated $50,000 to the Biden Victory Fund in October 2020 and\u00a0$2,800\u00a0to the Biden campaign in the same month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It appears that the White House has attempted to distance itself from Bankman-Fried since his fall from glory and subsequent disgrace. The White House has redirected questions about how the president plans to handle the donations to the Democratic National Committee. SBF is said to have indirectly supported Biden\u2019s campaign in the 2020 election with $10 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several Congress members, such as Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Dick Durbin, Reps. Dutch Ruppersberger, Salud Carbajal, Jesus Garcia, and Kevin Hern, have already confirmed that they will funnel donations made by Bankman-Fried and his younger brother, Gabriel, to charity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to the midterm elections last month, Bankman-Fried donated at least $39.2 million to Democrats in Congress, coming in second only to liberal billionaire George Soros. Bankman-Fried made generous donations to Republicans, but a huge portion of his gifts went to Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Bankman-Fried built a reputation as one of the biggest donors in modern American politics, with the White House also receiving a fair share of his supposed benevolence. However, the 30-year-old\u2019s empire has not only crumbled but also his public image as a community-supporting genius. Bankman-Fried was&nbsp;arrested&nbsp;by officials in the Bahamas following the request of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":38379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":2,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[310,644],"class_list":["post-38377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ftx","tag-sam-bankman-fried"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/bitcoinwisdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/press-secretary.webp",2000,1333,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/bitcoinwisdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/press-secretary-500x330.webp",500,330,true],"medium":["https:\/\/bitcoinwisdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/press-secretary-300x200.webp",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/bitcoinwisdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/press-secretary-768x512.webp",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/bitcoinwisdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/press-secretary-1024x682.webp",640,426,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/bitcoinwisdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/press-secretary-1536x1024.webp",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/bitcoinwisdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/press-secretary.webp",2000,1333,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/bitcoinwisdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/press-secretary-18x12.webp",18,12,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Lawrence Woriji","author_link":"https:\/\/bitcoinwisdom.com\/it\/author\/lawrencew\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Sam Bankman-Fried built a reputation as one of the biggest donors in modern American politics, with the White House also receiving a fair share of his supposed benevolence. 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