President Trump told 60 Minutes in a wide-ranging interview that he doesn't know the billionaire cryptocurrency exchange founder who he recently pardoned .

Mr. Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, a Chinese-born Canadian founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, last month, suggesting he was a victim of political prosecution by the Biden administration.

"I don't know who he is," the president told correspondent Norah O'Donnell in the interview . "I know he got a four-month sentence or something like that. And I heard it was a Biden witch hunt."

O'Donnell pointed out that Binance helped facilitate a $2 billion purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin earlier this year. The deal helped boost the profile and value of World Liberty Financial, which was founded la

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