I’ve got lawyers applying. We only submitted after the Bloomberg article and the Wall Street Journal article came out,” he said, referring to March coverage that reported he was seeking a pardon while engaging in crypto business deals involving Trump family allies. “And I was like, well, if they are writing this article, we might as well officially apply.”
At the time, Zhao publicly rejected parts of those stories, calling them inaccurate and denied any active business negotiations involving Binance U.S.
