Odaily News Like many people in and outside the crypto industry who hope to gain political points in Trump’s second term, FTX founder SBF unabashedly “sided” with Trump in an interview with the New York Sun on February 18: “I’ve spent a lot of time researching crypto policy and am very frustrated and disappointed with what I’ve seen and heard from the Biden administration and the Democratic Party. The Biden administration is extremely destructive and difficult to work with. Frankly speaking, the Republicans are much more reasonable.”
SBF hinted that his rightward shift began in 2022 because he and Trump have a common enemy, Lewis Kaplan, the judge who presided over the FTX fraud case and Trump's federal defamation trial.
In 2020, SBF was the second largest donor to Biden's campaign, but SBF now says: "I considered myself center-left at the time, but now I no longer see myself that way. The atmosphere in the technology industry has changed, and once outspoken Democrats such as Mark Zuckerberg and Marc Andreessen are now supporting Trump." (The Block)