There's an even bigger difference between donating and pledging to donate. Salame donated $26.4M to individual GOP politicians and another $2-3M to GOP politic

There's an even bigger difference between donating and pledging to donate. Salame donated $26.4M to individual GOP politicians and another $2-3M to GOP political organization. SBF donated $39.8M to Democratic politicians and organizations. Not all that different. The $1B pledge was realistically never going to happen, just as his offer to loan Musk $3B to buy Twitter was never going to happen. Even in the best of times he never would have been able to extract that kind of real money from his operation within a short time.