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Michael Lewis Has More Thoughts on S.B.F.

The bestselling author of Going Infinite hits back at the “shit show” criticism of his book, the spectacle inside the courtroom, and S.B.F.’s putative $5 billion offer to Trump.

“I’ve never had better material,” Michael Lewis said. “The material is unbelievable. And it was. But it had to pass through this American moral filter.”
“I’ve never had better material,” Michael Lewis said. “The material is unbelievable. And it was. But it had to pass through this American moral filter.” Photo: David Levenson/Getty Images
William D. Cohan
November 26, 2023

There was a moment during Michael Lewis’s many, many hours of interviewing Sam Bankman-Fried that struck the legendary author as particularly absurd: Sam was trying to figure out whether Donald Trump would just disappear for $5 billion. “Everyone has a price, right?” S.B.F. thought. But Lewis was highly skeptical of the idea. “He just looked at me,” Lewis told me in a recent conversation. “He was trying to figure out whether it was legal at that point to do it.”