In a wide-ranging interview with “60 Minutes” on Nov. 2, President Donald Trump pretended that he did not know the Binance founder, Changpeng Zhao, the cryptocurrency billionaire whom he pardoned, even though in 2023, Zhao had pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four months in prison for violating the Bank Secrecy Act for failing to implement anti-money laundering procedures.

For those who think this is a minor or vanilla offense, consider that the United States government had accused him of inflicting “significant harm to U.S. national security,” and said that he had “violated U.S. law on an unprecedented scale.” In the pursuit of profit, Binance’s money-laundering acts had allowed “money to flow to terrorists, cybercriminals and child abusers through its platform.” The terrorists includ

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