Sam Bankman-Fried Pushes Disputed Trial Narrative on X

Sam Bankman-Fried has posted a series of messages on X aimed at reframing his FTX conviction as politically motivated while he seeks a new trial from prison. Many of those claims conflict with court records and established facts, and the posts echo Trump-era “lawfare” language about prosecutorial and judicial misconduct.

He compared his situation to Donald Trump’s, saying both were “gagged” by Judge Lewis Kaplan. Court documents show that Kaplan set courtroom conduct limits in Trump’s civil defamation case rather than issuing a formal public gag order, and Trump’s criminal gag orders were entered by other judges.

Bankman-Fried, by contrast, was placed under a criminal gag order after repeated violations of pretrial release conditions. Bankman-Fried reiterated that FTX “was always solvent” and that prosecutors lied about misusing customer funds, an argument the jury rejected when it found customer assets were misused and misrepresented.

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