Brock Pierce, the co-founder of the EOS Alliance and controversial stablecoin Tether, has declared he will run for President of the United States as an independent. He has a long association with Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former chief strategist.
Pierce is a colorful character who was accused of being involved in an underage sex ring. One of his co-defendants was eventually arrested and pleaded guilty, but Pierce was never charged. However, he continued to associate with his friend after the allegations surfaced. Separately, he knew Jeffrey Epstein.
The Rolling Stone ran a feature about Pierce, which paints him as mercurial and unconventional but was mostly complimentary. One paragraph reads: “And here you have all the sides of Brock Pierce: visionary and madman, idealist and opportunist, entertainer and businessman, magician and hedonist, narcissist and community builder.”
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