Following Donald Trump’s first presidential election victory in 2016, “a relatively obscure” Stanford law professor named Barbara Fried was devastated, according . But she vowed to take action against the polarizing new president, and her “midlife political awakening” led her to organize her wealthy Democratic friends and contacts into a that briefly reshaped big-money politics in Silicon Valley and vowed to funnel more than $140 million into defeating Trump and other Republicans in 2020, Puck and Vox reported. Five years later, Fried and her fellow Stanford law professor husband, Joseph Bankman, have had a decisive change of heart about Trump, according .
And it looks like the plight of their 32-year-old son, disgraced former cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, has everything to do with that. So, too, does Trump’s return to the White House on Jan. 20.
The parents of the FTX co-founder have met with lawyers and others close to Trump seeking clemency for their son, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for fraud, , citing Bloomberg. The beleaguered Fried and Bankman, who were by their son’s prosecution and sentencing, are “exploring” the possibilities of a Trump pardon, Bloomberg also said. Bankman-Fried was last reported to be incarcerated in Brooklyn, New York, as he pursues an appeal.
Bankman-Fried’s hopes of a possible pardon have been buoyed by Trump’s support of cryptocurrencies — and by the fact that the judge in his federal trial, U.
