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Chris Harborne

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
309 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

No connection between donations on the one hand and crypto policy on the other.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

Nonetheless, even if there is no quid pro quo,

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

You can see that the people who receive this money from Harborne start to adopt very pro-crypto positions.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

So Farage, heading into the, during the pandemic, start to come out and say this is kind of the ultimate lockdown investment.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

He starts to latch on to this rhetoric about crypto being freedom and liberty and big governments locking us up in our houses and so on.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

And then Thorage will later become specifically a very vocal supporter of Tether itself.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

But before that happens, you've got Boris in power and you've got money going from Harborne to the Conservatives once again.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

And they say they want to make UK a sort of crypto hub.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

So there is a correlation between people who get Harborne's money and being very pro-crypto.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

There are other reasons to support crypto.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

It has some very positive uses.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

There are lots of people who make a good case that

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

Crypto is a good thing in some ways, but it's definitely the case that the people who've got Harbourn's money become pro-crypto.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

So a source tells me that they did witness Farage and co sitting down to a few bottles.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

Maybe this was kind of like wellness wine.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

Or maybe it was like stronger stuff.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

I'm not really sure.

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The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

He says it's just a party.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

He says it's just a party.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

Well, actually, he doesn't say anything.