#美国非农数据超预期 CZ being pardoned is getting more and more complicated.

The focus of the controversy is quite straightforward: does this pardon from the White House involve any commercial transactions?

The timeline is indeed intriguing. In 2023, CZ pleaded guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act, and in 2024, he squatted for 4 months, and as a result, he received a presidential pardon in October this year. This speed makes many people say "I don't understand".

More subtly, there is the commercial network behind it. Multiple media outlets have uncovered that the engineering team of a leading exchange was deeply involved in the technical setup of World Liberty Financial - a company closely associated with the Trump family, which also issued a stablecoin called USD1. Some investors have promised to inject about $2 billion into the project, with part of the funds reportedly settled directly in USD1 tokens.

These clues are interconnected, and the external doubts cannot be suppressed. Critics believe that the correlation among the timing of the pardon, business cooperation, and the flow of funds is too strong and must be clarified.

Facing public pressure, CZ's legal team is going all out. Lawyer Teresa Goody Guillén firmly pushed back during an interview, directly characterizing the claim of "quid pro quo" as "a pile of false statements," emphasizing that there is no evidence linking the pardon to money. She also specifically clarified that World Liberty Financial is not a business of the Trump family.

An official from a certain exchange also came out to put out the fire, shifting that large investment onto the "investor group" to distance itself from the company's decision-making.

But lawmakers are not buying it. Some members have called for the release of meeting records, agreement texts, and details of fund transfers related to the USD1 project, vowing to turn the pardon process upside down.

Ultimately, the core of this turmoil is where the boundary between power and capital lies. No matter how resolutely the legal team denies it, if there is insufficient transparency, credibility becomes a question mark. $BTC $ETH $XRP