Exclusive: Sam Bankman-Fried, Phoning the Sun From Jail, Rebuffs ‘Center-Left’ Politics — and Signals Sympathy With Trump 

The Sun is publishing 45 minutes of telephone interviews with the FTX founder, the first since he has been behind bars.

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FTX chief executive officer Sam Bankman-Fried arrives for a bail hearing at Manhattan Federal Court on August 11, 2023 at New York City. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

As Sam Bankman-Fried presses his appeal to the Second United States Appeals Circuit and awaits a transfer to a federal prison to continue his 25-year prison sentence, he’s undergoing changes — reflecting on the “destructive” policies of the Biden administration to which he steered millions, resentful of what he feels was the courts’ failure to presume him innocent, and somewhat startled at his own political trajectory.

That’s some of the substance of what Mr. Bankman-Fried, speaking on a telephone line from Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, tells The New York Sun in the only published audio interviews Mr. Bankman-Fried has done from jail. With corrections authorities listening in, he accused Mr. Biden of engaging in “political censorship” and “misinformation disguised as anti-misinformation.” 

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