Trump Pardons Convicted Big Tech Criminals This Week as Microsoft Moves to Force 1 Billion Windows Users to Adopt Biometric Passkeys
With so much “headline-worthy” news this past week, a story that barely was mentioned in the media on Friday, was the news that Trump pardoned a bunch of convicted criminals.
These were mainly Big Tech investors, including the Mormon billionaire, Trevor Milton, founder of Nikola Motors, an EV start-up company that was making cyber trucks, and at one time had a valuation higher than Ford Motors.
Trevor Milton was sentenced to four years in prison in 2023 for fraud after misleading investors about Nikola’s hydrogen and electric trucks.
He stepped down in 2020 after a damning report alleged that Nikola had exaggerated the capabilities of its trucks and faked publicity videos — including by rolling a truck down a hill to make it look like it was driving.
Milton and his wife reportedly contributed $1.8 million to Trump’s campaign, as well as $750,000 to Robert F. Kennedy, and his MAHA Alliance, a political action committee that tried to persuade supporters of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to back Mr. Trump after Mr. Kennedy dropped out of the presidential race.
Brad Bondi, a member of Mr. Milton’s defense team during the trial, is reportedly the brother of Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Mr. Milton reportedly became very rich from Nikola, even though he never had a working model. In one demo, he reportedly used a GM truck and simply replaced its logo with Nikola’s to make it look like he actually had a working model.
Other pardons that Trump issued on Friday, were three founders of the BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange, who were convicted on money laundering, and had even plead guilty to the charges!
I wonder if Trump will pardon Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX next? He is still in prison, and much of the money he laundered through FTX went through rich and powerful people in Ukraine.
I am sure that the pardon of Nikola Motors founder Trevor Milton will now set a precedence under Trump for Big Tech convicted criminals.
Meanwhile, as Bill Gates appeared on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon this week and boldly predicted AI would soon replace humans and take away their jobs, creating fear among those who covered this story, the company Gates founded, Microsoft Corporation, announced that they were going to “protect” everyone from this dangerous AI technology, by eliminating passwords and pushing people on to “passkeys” that will require a biometric login, such as a face or palm scan, which will affect more than 1 billion users of Microsoft Windows.
How thoughtful of Microsoft to look out for us and protect us from the dangers of AI! Now with a person’s passkey and biometric personal data stored in their Cloud, they can trace everything a person does, and everywhere they go, to make sure they are not victimized by these dangerous AI hackers!