President Trump told 60 Minutes in a wide-ranging interview that he doesn't know the billionaire cryptocurrency exchange founder who he recently pardoned.

Mr. Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, a Chinese-born Canadian founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, last month, suggesting he was a victim of political prosecution by the Biden administration.

"I don't know who he is," the president told correspondent Norah O'Donnell in the interview. "I know he got a four-month sentence or something like that. And I heard it was a Biden witch hunt."