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At this point it would be naive to take at face value anything SBF said about his money. Financially speaking, he appears to be the world's biggest liar of 2022.

> direct employee donations often favor Democrats but donations to PACs which then support candidates

Rather than speculating, we could alternatively choose to look at some numbers:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13Wq2kPw3C4X_50Tqc8H9...

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I’m aware that he publicly donated to Democratic PACs. I was just trying to illustrate that there’s considerable precedent for someone being strategic about which donations they think will be unpopular with their friends, customers, employees, etc.

Given that he basically ran a money laundering machine this is extremely plausible - the amounts which various people reportedly embezzled would be plenty to fund a ton of PAC spending and it’ll take forensic accountants years to figure out whether that happened.

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