摘要：据2025年10月23日美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）报道，白宫于10月23日表示，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普已赦免币安创始人赵长鹏。赵长鹏曾在2023年对一项洗钱指控认罪。
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特朗普赦免被美国政府判罪并已认罪和认罚的币安创始人赵长鹏
一、特朗普赦免赵长鹏、孙宇晨等加密货币大佬
据2025年10月23日美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）报道，白宫于10月23日表示，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普已赦免币安创始人赵长鹏。赵长鹏曾在2023年对一项洗钱指控认罪。
白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·莱维特在一份声明中称，特朗普“行使宪法赋予的权力，赦免了赵先生。赵先生在拜登政府对加密货币的打击行动中遭到起诉”。此举可能为币安这家全球最大的加密货币交易所，同时也是特朗普家族加密货币公司的托管平台重新在美国开展业务打开大门。
2024年5月，赵长鹏因对“未能维持有效的反洗钱计划”这一指控认罪，被判处4个月监禁。他被迫辞去了币安首席执行官一职。币安是他于2017年创立的加密货币交易所。他还同意支付2亿美元罚款。2023年，币安与美国联邦政府达成协同和解，同意支付逾40亿美元的罚款及其他处罚。币安承认存在反洗钱行为、无证汇款及违反制裁规定等问题。
赵长鹏并非特朗普重返白宫后赦免的唯一一位加密货币大亨。特朗普上任后不久，就赦免了罗斯·乌尔布里希特。乌尔布里希特是自由意志主义加密货币领域备受关注的人物，他因创建“丝绸之路”暗网市场而被判处终身监禁。美国司法部曾将该暗网市场描述为“当今互联网上最复杂、规模最大的犯罪交易平台”。
中国加密货币亿万富豪孙宇晨在世界自由金融公司成立后不久便向其注入了数千万美元。在拜登政府执政期间，孙宇晨曾在美国面临民事欺诈指控。今年2月特朗普上台后，美国证券交易委员会撤销了对孙宇晨的指控。此外，今年3月，特朗普还赦免了加密货币交易所BitMEX的三位联合创始人，这三人此前已对“违反反洗钱计划”的指控认罪。
孙宇晨等圈大佬因投资特朗普家族的加密货币受邀参加特朗普在白宫举行的招待会
二、特朗普为何频频赦免被判有罪的加密货币大佬？
专家指出，特朗普赦免赵长鹏、孙宇晨等加密货币大佬的行为，是多重政治、经济和个人利益交织的结果。
首先是兑现竞选承诺。特朗普在2024年竞选期间将加密货币行业视为关键票仓，承诺“让美国成为全球加密货币之都”。赦免赵长鹏、暗网“丝绸之路”创始人罗斯·乌尔布里希特等标志性人物，是其兑现竞选承诺的直接体现。加密货币社区对特朗普的支持显著，2024年大选期间，加密行业通过政治行动委员会等渠道向共和党捐赠超过2.45亿美元，占大选资金总额近一半。
其次是特朗普家族的新商业版图与加密货币已深度绑定。特朗普家族通过世界自由金融公司深度涉足加密货币领域。该公司由特朗普儿子埃里克·特朗普与竞选捐助者共同创立，其发行的稳定币USD1与美元挂钩，并通过币安平台托管。币安为推广USD1提供流量支持，而阿联酋投资公司使用USD1向币安注资20亿美元的交易，直接为世界自由金融公司带来“20亿美元银行存款”。赵长鹏的赦免可能为币安重返美国市场扫清障碍，进而巩固特朗普家族与币安的商业合作。
特朗普家族的加密货币公司和财富正日益依赖币安公司。币安还助力推广了世界自由金融公司的专有代币，这些代币的销售为特朗普家族带来了数亿美元的手续费收入。《华尔街日报》估算，世界自由金融公司为特朗普家族财富增加了逾50亿美元的账面财富，这一数字超过了总统的房地产资产规模。
三是变相接受贿赂。孙宇晨通过波场及个人名义向世界自由金融公司投资超过7500万美元，成为其第二大投资者，并担任战略顾问。其投资行为与美国证券交易所撤诉存在时间关联：2025年2月，交易所暂停对孙宇晨的欺诈诉讼，而此时正值孙宇晨增持世界自由金融公司代币之时。尽管赵长鹏否认币安与特朗普家族存在股权交易，但孙宇晨案的处理方式被外界视为“以商业投资换取监管豁免”的典型案例。
四是与中国等抢占在加密货币领域的优势。特朗普团队认为，中国、阿联酋等国家在加密货币领域的快速布局对美国构成威胁。赦免赵长鹏并支持币安，被视为对抗“中国加密货币影响力”的策略。例如，阿联酋投资公司对币安的20亿美元投资中，部分资金来自阿联酋主权基金，而币安借此强化了与中东地区的合作网络。特朗普试图通过“监管松绑+商业合作”模式，重塑美国在加密货币领域的主导权。
由小特朗普掌管的从事加密货币业务的世界自由金融公司市值已超其家族地产公司
三、特朗普与白宫对民主党和舆论质疑赦免涉嫌腐败如何回应
民主党和美国媒体对特朗普的赦免行为提出尖锐批评，指责其是在为其家族的加密货币生意谋取高额利益。
特朗普在10月23日的讲话中并未直接回应赦免是否与其家族的加密货币利益相关，但承认“我赦免过很多人”。
在23日的白宫新闻发布会上，当被问及民主党人批评此次赦免存在腐败问题时，莱维特表示，白宫“会对提交至总统案头的每一份赦免请求进行非常彻底的审查”。她表示，自己已就此次赦免与白宫法律顾问直接沟通，政府认为在拜登政府执政期间，赵长鹏的案件“受到了过度起诉”，并声称拜登政府“对加密货币行业持非常敌视的态度”。
莱维特称，自己已就此次赦免与白宫法律顾问直接沟通，政府认为在拜登政府执政期间，赵长鹏的案件“受到了过度起诉”，并声称拜登政府“对加密货币行业持非常敌视的态度”。
莱维特称拜登政府对赵长鹏的判决过于严厉，在币安为赵长鹏（人称“CZ”）开展长达数月的赦免游说活动后，总统及其高级顾问也持这一观点。
10月23日下午，特朗普为自己的决定辩护。他告诉CNN记者凯特兰·柯林斯，这一赦免是“应许多非常优秀人士的请求”而签发的。
特朗普在白宫国宴厅举行的圆桌会议上表示：“我跟你们说，据我所知，我不认识他，我认为我从未见过他。但有人告诉我，他获得了很多支持，非常多的支持。他们说他所做的事甚至算不上犯罪。那根本不是犯罪，他是被拜登政府迫害的。所以，应许多非常优秀人士的请求，我赦免了他。”
Trump pardons Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Byn Alayna Treene, Allison Morrow on CNN. October 24, 2025.
President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who pleaded guilty to a money laundering charge in 2023, the White House said Thursday.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that Trump “exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon for Mr. Zhao, who was prosecuted by the Biden Administration in their war on cryptocurrency.” The move could open the door for Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange and the host of the Trump family’s crypto firm, to operate in the US again, and generated some concern that Trump was helping a man who had helped his family reap financial benefits.
Leavitt argued that the Biden administration’s sentencing of Zhao was too harsh — a view the president and his top advisers share after Binance’s monthslong lobbying campaign for a pardon for Zhao, who goes by CZ.
Trump defended his decision on Thursday afternoon, telling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins he issued the pardon, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, “at the request of a lot of very good people.”
“Let me just tell you that he was somebody that, as I was told, I don’t know him, I don’t believe I’ve ever met him, but I’ve been told by, a lot of support, he had a lot of support, and they said that what he did is not even a crime,” Trump said during a roundtable in the White House State Dining Room. “It wasn’t a crime, that he was persecuted by the Biden administration, and so, I gave him a pardon at the request of a lot of very good people.”
Trump, a former crypto skeptic who did a 180 on the alternative financial assets while running for a second term, has pledged to make the US the “crypto capital of the planet.” In launching a multi-faceted crypto empire, the Trump family has also established direct financial links to Binance over the past year.
The Trump family’s crypto firm, World Liberty Financial — on which their wealth is increasingly dependent — is hosted on Binance. The exchange has also helped popularize World Liberty Financial’s proprietary tokens, the sale of which has generated hundreds of millions of dollars in fees for the Trump family.
The Wall Street Journal estimated that World Liberty Financial has added more than $5 billion in paper wealth to the Trump family fortune — eclipsing the president’s real estate assets.
Earlier this year, MGX, an Emirati-backed investment firm, agreed to use World Liberty’s dollar-backed stablecoin, USD1, for a $2 billion investment in Binance. The deal was a huge win for World Liberty Financial, which effectively received a $2 billion bank deposit. At the time, Binance was actively lobbying for Zhao’s pardon.
Trump did not directly address whether his pardon was related to his family’s crypto interests, but acknowledged, “I pardon a lot of people,” during Thursday’s remarks.
Asked at Thursday’s White House press briefing about Democratic criticisms of the pardon as corrupt, Leavitt said the White House has “a very thorough examination of every pardon request that comes to the president’s desk.”
She told reporters that she spoke directly with the White House counsel about the pardon, and that the administration believes Zhao’s case was “overly prosecuted” under the Biden administration, which she claimed was “very hostile to the cryptocurrency industry.”
Zhao was sentenced to four months in prison in May 2024 after pleading guilty to charges that he failed to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program.
Zhao stepped down as CEO of Binance, the crypto exchange he founded in 2017, and agreed to pay $200 million in fines. The company agreed to pay more than $4 billion in fines and other penalties as part of a coordinated settlement with the federal government in 2023. Binance admitted to engaging in anti-money laundering activities, unlicensed money transmitting and sanctions violations.
Zhao isn’t the only crypto mogul to win a reprieve from Trump since his return to the White House. Shortly after returning to office, Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, a cause celebre of the Libertarian crypto world, who had been serving a life sentence for creating the Silk Road marketplace, which the Justice Department had described as “the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet today.”
Justin Sun, the Chinese crypto billionaire who poured tens of millions of dollars into World Liberty Financial soon after it launched, had been facing civil fraud charges in the United States under the Biden administration. The Securities and Exchange Commission dropped the case against Sun in February. And, in March, Trump pardoned three co-founders of BitMEX, a crypto exchange, who had pleaded guilty to violating anti-money-laundering programs.
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