Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road drug marketplace

This was one of the biggest requests of the Libertarian Party and Trump followed through with it. Could you imagine the Democratic Party agreeing to any demand from the Green Party in an attempt to get votes?

Didn't Donald the Jester say something about fighting crime before the election? And then he drops thousands of hard criminals back on the street?

He referred to the prosecutors as scum and said they were the ones who were persecuting him like it was some purely political shit when he is an incredibly prolific fraudsters, rapist, and traitor. He should have been arrested during the Jan 6th insurrection and never allowed free again.

His reasoning was that Ross was a libertarian and this is to honor the libertarian movement that supported him... dude! He labeled the fucking drug cartels terrorist organizations and Ross enabled so much drug trafficking it isn't funny. How the fuck do people not see through that?

Trump is a demon, but this was a good call. His sentence was wildly disproportionate to what he did.

Drug cartels are cheering.

Snowden next?

This is a win for drug cartels

OMG Trump did a positive thing 🤯, maybe by mistake

"The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me."

He called Ulbricht's prison sentence "ridiculous."

I clearly recall Trump being president from 2016-2020, Ulbricht was sentenced to life without parole in 2015.

If it was so ridiculous, why didn't he pardon him on his first term? What changed to make it such an immediate priority now?

Trump said he had called Ulbricht’s mother to tell her he would pardon her son “in honor of her and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly”.

Wildy transactional.

So... does "full and unconditional" mean he's also pardoned for the murders-for-hire? Or just for being a drug lord and America's Next Top Website Boy?

Oh... He's not even the real Dread Pirate Roberts!

I didn't even notice that this happened:

Today, President Biden granted Leonard Peltier executive clemency and commuted the remainder of his sentence.

I remember this guy being a fucking idiot that paid for several fake assassinations of fake rivals. It was pretty funny.

It’s so easy to see who bough his bitcoin “scam” now, isn’t it?

Wow, holy fuck, I never thought it'd happen. Even a broken clock is right twice a day I guess.

This dude is about to have a very lucrative career.

Amazing

Could someone explain like to an non American why the president gets to pardon people at all?

If someone committed a crime they're guilty, if there's new evidence that they're not guilty then that's what appeals are for.

Don't know or care about this guy but all drugs should be legal.

Because of bitcoin I'm sure.

Probably made a deal and wants all his Bitcoin. Smart kid, you know it's hidden somewhere. Thank God he's out there double life without parole. It's inhumane.

Not to mention that undercover basically set him up to look bad.

Anyone else remember the panic when you logged in and saw the notice that the site was seized by the feds?

I mean, certainly not something I experienced but I’m sure if I had it would’ve been terrifying to think the feds could find your info

Imagine having millions of dollars worth of bitcoin in 2013 and then being imprisoned until 2024.

I hope he made a good backup of at least a few thousand coins.

Yay drugs!

Why though?

I mean, who is looking at this and calling it an injustice?

Side note: does he get his bitcoin wallet back?