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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)
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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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[–] Wodge@lemmy.world 72 points 2 years 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.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You call this erotic fiction? Bwa!

[–] ScrotusMaximus@lemmy.ninja 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is Scrotus short for Scrotius?

[–] PinkPanther@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] ozmot@lemmy.world 71 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 34 points 2 years ago

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

[–] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 17 points 2 years ago

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

[–] NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.com 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My man had an overinflated ego...

[–] dublet@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years 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.

[–] NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for the info.

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They are lying you just got conned!

[–] NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.com 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for the info.

[–] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They are lying you just got conned!

[–] NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.com 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the info.

[–] Mamertine@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

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

[–] fruitleatherpostcard@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't do meth yo

[–] cyd@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Edvard Munch has to pay the bills somehow.

[–] fruitleatherpostcard@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

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

I’m really not turned on.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

[–] PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

Really earning the artist part of his title.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And SBF isn’t weird looking?

[–] fruitleatherpostcard@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] 8ender@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Heat must be turned way up. Wax is melting.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 5 points 2 years 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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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years 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@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years 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).