Trump’s second ex-wife calls for end of persecution against Roger Ver

US President Donald Trump’s 2nd ex-wife, Marla Maples, has shown enactment for ending the country’s lawsuit against aboriginal Bitcoin advocator Roger Ver, known arsenic “Bitcoin Jesus.”

“Sharing much re [regarding] the telephone to disregard the prosecution against Roger Ver,” Maples said successful a March 16 X post, sharing a video created by an enactment aimed astatine supporting Ver and tagging Trump, Elon Musk and US Attorney General Pam Bondi.

The Department of Justice charged Ver with message fraud, taxation evasion and filing mendacious taxation returns successful April 2024, alleging helium hid the magnitude of Bitcoin (BTC) helium owned erstwhile helium renounced his US citizenship successful 2014 and defrauded the Internal Revenue Service retired of $48 cardinal by failing to report the gains helium made done selling them.

Sharing much re the telephone to disregard the prosecution against Roger Ver @PamBondi @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump @Davewarrington https://t.co/BckQwEXBW6

Maples and Trump met successful the mid-1980s during his archetypal matrimony to Ivana Trump, and was his 2nd woman from 1993 until 1999. She has agelong been progressive with philanthropy and has advocated for aggregate charities and causes.

She is seemingly inactive adjacent to and supportive of Trump, who unneurotic person a daughter, Tiffany Trump. Maples attended Trump’s inauguration and told the London Evening Standard successful July that she was “open to immoderate mode that I tin serve” the then-presidential bidder.

Maples joins a big of high-profile figures calling to stop the prosecution of Ver, which includes Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and online achromatic marketplace Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht, who was facing a treble beingness condemnation successful situation until Trump pardoned him successful January.

Ver has appealed to Trump for a pardon, claiming helium is being unfairly persecuted and is simply a unfortunate of “lawfare.”

Neither Trump nor the White House has publically acknowledged Ver’s plea, but Trump’s cost-cutting czar Musk said successful a January X station that Ver “gave up his US citizenship. No pardon for Ver. Membership has its privileges.”

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Ver was arrested successful Spain astatine the clip of the US indictment pending his extradition to the US but was later granted bail connected the information helium stay successful the country.

He moved to dismiss the government’s lawsuit successful December, arguing the charges were unconstitutional, and the IRS’ “exit tax” for renounced citizens is “inscrutably vague” erstwhile applied to crypto.

Cointelegraph has contacted Maples for comment.

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