The Tucker Carlson Show
Sam Bankman-Fried on Life in Prison With Diddy, and How Democrats Stole His Money and Betrayed Him
06 Mar 2025
Sam Bankman-Fried is doing 25 years behind bars, and is now sharing a cell block with Diddy. He joins us from prison for an update on his new life. (00:00) What Has Prison Been Like? (02:28) Was SBF Ever on Adderall? (04:42) SBF Meeting Diddy in Prison (07:00) How Prison Has Changed SBF’s Perspective (16:24) The Future of Crypto Under Donald Trump (22:57) Does SBF Have Any Money Left? Paid partnerships with: iTrust Capital: Get $100 funding bonus at https://www.iTrustCapital.com/Tucker PureTalk: Switch your cell phone service to a company you can be PROUD to do business with at https://PureTalk.com/Tucker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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So where are you? Yeah, well, I'm in MDC, Brooklyn, in a little side room. How long have you been there? I've been in prison for about, oh boy, what's it been now? It's been about two years. So what's it like? It's, I mean, it's sort of dystopian. You know, the fortunate thing, the place I'm in, I'm not in sort of I'm not in physical danger.
And frankly, a lot of the staff, they're trying to be helpful. They're trying to do what they can, given the constraints. You know, no one wants to be in prison.
And you can imagine what happens when you take sort of 40 people, you know, all of them have been at least charged with crimes and lock them in a single room for years on end and throw out the key, which is the most trivial things become all that people have left to care about.
Yes. Have you had any problems?
Not of the sort of acute kind, like I haven't had, you know, I haven't been attacked or anything like that. I've had a lot of logistical problems. And, you know, the biggest, frankly, was when I was on trial, trying to get access to legal work was nearly impossible. I would, you know, on a typical trial day, they'd wake me up at 4 a.m.
I'd spend five hours in various buses, vans, and holding cells until my trial started in the morning, then trial straight through to 5 p.m., another four hours in holding cells and vans, you know, and get back at 9 p.m. way after any access to legal work was cut off for the day. So that was the biggest problem.
So what do you do all day when you're not on trial?
Well, it's a really good question because there's not a whole lot to do in person. I read books. I've started reading novels again. I play some chess. And I work on my legal case to the extent I can. There's appeal. There are other things. I do what work I can from in here on that. But the lack of other meaningful things to spend my time on is one of the most –
kind of soul-crushing things about prison.
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