PANews reported on October 15 that the X account of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) forwarded his post on GETTR: "In 2020, I held a center-left political stance. By 2022, after witnessing the Gensler/Biden administration's Department of Justice's actions against cryptocurrencies, I became a centrist and (privately) donated tens of millions of dollars to the Republican Party. A few weeks later, the Biden administration's anti-cryptocurrency SEC/Department of Justice took action against me. They arrested me a few weeks before the cryptocurrency bill I helped promote was about to be put to a vote, and the night before I was scheduled to testify in Congress. House Republicans pointed out that the arrest was intended to prevent SBF from testifying and asked Gensler to hand over internal communications about the timing of the prosecution and arrest, which Gensler later lost." The above text was sent by a friend who has access to the SBF account.