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Out on the Weekend

(Permanent Musical Accompaniment to the Last Post of the Week from the Blog's Favourite Living Canadian)

All you need to know about this story in The Wall Street Journal is wrapped up there right in the first sentence.

President Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the convicted founder of the crypto exchange Binance, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family’s own crypto company.

They're not even bothering to hide it well any more. (At least, Tom Homan is accused of stashing the payoff in a paper bag.) Zhao is a perfect exemplar of why the entire crypto culture should be drowned in a lake of Red Bull. He was a thoroughgoing crook.

Zhao was sentenced to four months in prison after he reached a deal with the Justice Department to

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