PANews reported on February 25th, citing Fortune, that Sam Bankman-Fried, sentenced to 25 years in prison for the FTX fraud case, has recently been frequently posting on X in support of Trump, attacking the "deep state" and Judge Lewis Kaplan, which is seen as a social media campaign to seek a pardon from President Trump. A White House spokesperson reiterated that Trump made it clear in January that he had no plans to pardon Bankman-Fried, Robert Menendez, and Nicolás Maduro, stating that "the president is the final decision-maker in all pardon cases." The report indicates that although the Trump administration has relaxed regulatory enforcement in the crypto industry, Bankman-Fried's status as a former major Democratic donor and his negative reputation within the crypto industry make his chances of seeking a pardon seem slim.