Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao on Friday denied having any business ties with President Trump or his sons, adding that he did not expect to be pardoned last month.

"I believe my lawyers submitted the petition in April," Zhao told Fox News's Bret Baier on "Special Report," referring to the clemency as a "surprise."

"It took a few months. I don't know the progress. There's no indication of how far it went along, exactly," he added. "So, it just happened one day."

When Baier suggested Zhao was working with a firm connected to Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., he called the information "categorically false."

The Fox News host cited the

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