Eleven days ago, president Donald Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, whose crypto exchange facilitated a multibillion-dollar deal involving the Trump family’s own World Liberty Financial.

Just hours later, he told a reporter that he didn’t know why the White House had decided to pardon Zhao, highlighting what MSNBC is calling a “brazenly corrupt pardon.”

“I don’t know,” he said bluntly at the time. “He was recommended by a lot of people.”

During a Sunday interview with CBS News, Trump once again professed ignorance about the man he had pardoned just over a week ago, a move that requires his personal signature.

“I don’t know who he is,” he said. “I know he got a four-month sentence or something like that. And I heard it was a Biden witch hunt.”

The timing of the pardon is c

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