Sam Bankman-Fried, the FTX founder, is in jail and faces several federal charges. He looked into whether he could pay Donald Trump not to run in 2024, Michael Lewis wrote. Michael Lewis reports that Sam Bankman-Fried considered paying Donald Trump not to run for president. Lewis said that Bankman-Fried never learned if the $5 billion number came directly from Trump. "Isn't Sam Bankman-Fried a liar who has been outed as a fraudster and someone that can't be trusted," Steven Cheung, Trump's spokesperson, wrote in a brief response to an inquiry from Insider.

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