Bankman-Fried’s claim paints an even more perplexing picture of a man who positioned himself as an ethical billionaire who was very publicly the second largest donor to Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections, but was donating just as much to the Republicans behind closed doors.“[My Republican donations were] not generally known, because despite Citizens United being literally the highest profile Supreme Court case of the decade and the thing everyone talks about when they talk about campaign finance, for some reason, in practice, no one can possibly fathom the idea that someone, in practice, actually gave dark,” Bankman-Fried explained on the phone call.Bankman-Fried tweeted that he thought he was talking to a friend when he more or less admitted to pulling some extremely shady moves with FTX funds in his interview with Vox earlier this month, saying “fuck regulators,” and suggesting that a lot of the “dumb shit” he said to seem altruistic was just a public relations ploy.The calls provide some interesting takes from Bankman-Fried, including his belief that if FTX had never filed for bankruptcy, “all users would be whole and withdrawals would be on on FTX right now—not just U.S., international as well.” But that perspective seems to be wildly optimistic, perhaps bordering on delusional, based on the facts we already know in FTX’s bankruptcy filings.Bankman-Fried stepped down as the CEO of FTX and the man who replaced him, John J. Ray III, who also took over Enron after that company’s infamous collapse in 2001, said about FTX, “never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls.” Obviously everything that Bankman-Fried says"