Representative Maxine Waters slammed President Donald Trump’s pardon of Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao, calling it a corrupt favor to a “crypto criminal.” United States Representative Maxine Waters has strongly criticized US President Donald Trump for his decision to pardon Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao. Trump pardoned Zhao on Thursday, saying people told him “what he did is not even a crime.” Waters, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Financial Services, hit back later Thursday, claiming in a statement that “Trump is doing massive favors for crypto criminals who have helped line his pockets.”“Trump’s pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao-who pleaded guilty to enabling money laundering and facilitating suspicious transactions with child abusers, drug dealers, and terrorists-is an appalling but unsurprising reflection of his presidency,” Waters said. Trump said his decision to pardon Zhao followed “a lot of people” telling him CZ wasn’t guilty. Read more.
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Trump’s propaganda minister Stephen Miller went on an unhinged rant on Sean Hannity’s show this Wednesday in response to actor Robert De Niro calling him a Nazi on MSNBC over the weekend. Here’s what set Miller off: Robert De Niro labeled President Donald Trump’s top aide, Stephen Miller, a “Nazi” during a widespread rant about the Trump administration. While appearing on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” on Sunday, the Oscar winner, 82, made the comments after arguing that Trump will force his way into a third term in the White House. “We see it, we see it, we see it . all the time he will not want to leave. He set it up with . I guess he’s the Goebbels of the cabinet, Stephen Miller. He’s a Nazi,” De Niro said of Miller while comparing him to the Nazi Party’s chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels. read more.
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