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Sam has spent about $37 million on the current government, and I assume the government will send him to a safe place to prove its loyalty to him.
That's not how the real world works. His crimes and misbehavior is too public to brush it under the rug anymore. Sam messed up big time in many ways but are donations from rich guys now illegal somehow? I though they were pretty common thing in US.
Also people seem to forget what triggered this bear run. It wasn't CZ catching the mismanagement of funds and collateral. Terra was the trigger that caused the panic, insolvency in everywhere, shorting etc.
Governments are full of controversy. There are left and right corruptions, and etc.. so the above scenario is very possible to happen. Donating is not illegal of course but there is a big possibility that what he used as a donation is not the money of his own but it was the money of the people who trusted him. That was wrong in any angle but if scenarios like that are common in the US then that's bad for their reputation. I even thought US is a good place but I was wrong.
Before the FTX tragedy happened, there was terra but before them, I think there is already a bear market that time but these negative events that we are experiencing are making the bear market worse.