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Yes.
This is a crypto lawyer.
Trump had considered her to lead the SEC.
Instead, she is, again, part in lobbying, basically.
And in the process, in addition to this, Binance happened to establish business ties with a certain highly profitable Trump family crypto venture called?
At this point in the episode, you might be listening and being like, surely, surely there is some mechanism in which someone in government has raised their hand and said, this seems like it shouldn't happen anymore.
And the reality is that constitutionally, this broad unlimited power to grant pardons is super clear as Donald Trump's right.
There's no legal question.
He can totally do it.
And as my Trump world source put it, the only mechanism that prevented Joe Biden from doing it throughout his second term as well like this was fundamentally shame.
And sleep.
And sleep.
Right, right, right.
But this whole thing, I mean, as Liz Oyer put it, like, I suppose Congress could do something.
And unfortunately, they're not even bothering to announce when the pardons are being made.
They're just like happening and you find out about them later and you're like, oh yeah, that just happened.
And that's the thing.
It's like we're testing the outer limits on what even matters anymore.
And the answer truly is nothing.
The answer is that nothing matters.