I'm not so sure he's dead in the water as a future donor. There is $8 billion missing. I think it's likely most of it is gone in the sense of irrecoverable by SBF, but with the amount he was moving around it wouldn't be hard to drop $100 million here, $40 million there. That's not to mention the $300 million he cashed out in the last FTX funding round and the $1 billion personal loan he took from FTX, neither of which I've seen addressed yet as to where that money is now.
He's not going to be donating $100 million here or there to these politicians. They would not accept his donations, he is politically the kiss of death.
> They would not accept his donations, he is politically the kiss of death.
I'm not going to address this part, which is the main point of your message. You might be right, I really don't know how political money moves, especially "dark money" and whatnot.
I'll address the other parts to clarify because I think there were a couple minor points of confusion.
> He's not going to be donating $100 million here or there to these politicians.
The $100 million here, $40 million there I spoke of was him dropping money in accounts / crypto wallets controlled by himself. I'm saying I think he still has a lot of money, and from what I understand money can buy influence. You might be right that his money cannot buy influence on Capital Hill anymore. But I do think he still has a lot of money.
> He likely does not even have the $8 billion.
No, I definitely don't think he has $8 billion. Clearly a lot of that was lost. But I do think there's good reason to believe he has access to money in the order of $100 million - $1 billion while he's trying to claim he only has $100k left.
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