Politicians and liberal media outlets on the receiving end of FTX donations and grants are sitting on “stolen” money, journalist Glenn Greenwald said Tuesday, urging them to return the funds given to them as a result of a “Ponzi scheme” that impacted an estimated one million customers.
“Everyone knows, including these politicians, that it is not their money,” Greenwald said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “That money was stolen. It was a Ponzi scheme and people are without their money while these politicians keep the money that doesn’t belong to them.”
The 30-year-old FTX CEO became a major player in Washington with his commitment to philanthropy and political donations that made him the second-largest donor to the Democratic Party in the 2022 election cycle, with over $40 million in contributions. One of the largest donations was to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign in 2020, for a total of $5.2 million.
Bankman-Fried is also accused of trying to purchase favorable coverage from the press after it was revealed he gave cash to media outlets including The Intercept, Vox, ProPublica and former New York Times media columnist Ben Smith’s new outlet, Semafor.
The problem is that he was buying out media outlets, so many of them are recipients of huge amounts of money,” Greenwald told Fox News host Tucker Carlson when asked why the media is failing to hold Democrat politicians accountable who have yet to return the FTX donations.
R&I – TxPAT
Mariam
Article URL : https://www.foxnews.com/media/media-covering-democrats-sitting-stolen-ftx-money-because-recipients-greenwald