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Full First Interview With Sam Bankman-Fried
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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this video.There's another part of the interview where SBF says he donated about the same to Democrats and Republicans, contrary to the public record. https://youtu.be/6DezodR9hNI?t=775His explanation and reasoning is that Democrat donations would be treated favorably by the media so those were done publicly, while "reporters would freak the fuck out" about Republican donations. So he made those in the dark.
⬐ jeffbeeThe party breakdown doesn't seem very interesting to me. A huge chunk of the money went to one pro-crypto long-shot candidate who got trounced 2-to-1 in the primary election. That one block of money distorts any aggregate analysis.⬐ eachroI'm not sure how accurate that is: https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/biggest-donor...⬐ sworesI read that it was even from FTX but leaning D in his name specifically (though I don't trust the numbers in your link at al).It makes sense that you might get more influence if a handful of people in your company can go to meetings with a party and be treated as people who donated almost entirely to the people they're meeting - and have another handful of people who can do the same to the other side. As opposed to every politician knowing the people they're meeting are 50/50 donors even on an individual basis. If you're going to spend tens of millions on donations and have multiple people you trust to do lobbying, I can't think of a reason not to split it like that, but I'm not an expert so maybe someone can give one?
I believe the highest donor from FTX was a little over $20M, but I've not seen any numbers for exact total contributions from the company and from key people involved are.
⬐ i13eShe also posted a second interview with SBF about an hour ago:Second Interview with SBF: FTX User Funds on Alameda, $8 billion hole, CZ, Run on the Bank, Remorse -https://youtu.be/watch?v=xP54LZB3WRw
Sam is claiming he himself also donated to Republicans https://youtu.be/6DezodR9hNIHis claim is he donated through dark money via Citizens United in order to avoid media attention for donating to Republicans.
But I’m at the point where I believe nothing coming out of his mouth.