When Pardon Meets Cryptocracy: A Waughian Take on Trump, CZ, and the Bizarre Circus

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, with all the seriousness of a woman who had just discovered her umbrella was upside down, declared: “President Trump exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon for Mr. Zhao, who was prosecuted by the Biden Administration in their war on cryptocurrency.” As if the entire enterprise was less about justice and more about a game of high-stakes chess played with less regard for pawns and more for the spectacle of the king’s gambit.




