Trump Pledges to Free Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht If Re-Elected

Remember this one random dude you guys used to talk about like 10 years ago? You should vote for me because I’ll free him!

Sounds as good as any reason.
- If Trump actually gave a shit he'd end the war on drugs. Instead he's making the most blatant virtue signal ever by saying he'll free ONE white dude... that he probably won't even free anyway because he's a narcissistic compulsive liar.
  No Republican has the balls to end the war on drugs, because they created "tough on crime" retribution. Rehabilitation and second chances are anti-conservative.
- Are you a fucking Trump supporter?

After 8 yrs of this nonsense, I'm floored anyone still takes what Trump says seriously.

Indeed, Trump, Biden, all politicians are liars. I find it interesting to see what they lie about.
- Weird that you can’t see the difference between Trump and Biden.
- Both sides, guys!

His word is demonstrably worthless.

So.... What happened to commuting his sentence in the first term? Too much golf, I guess

Dude was a criminal, rightfully convicted. So of course Trump would pardon him.

He didn't know who he was 30 hours ago - now it's between Ulbricht and Rittenhouse for VP....
- Don't forget the corpse of Noem's dead dog. Trump has seen him in the news a lot too.
Did he do something morally wrong? I'm confused by your statement if you're only referring to creation/management of silk road. Heard some accusations about him being involved in murder-for-hire but I didn't think that was ever substantiated
- He kinda tried to have an imaginary person taken out...that's what got him.
- He facilitated the sale of many dangerous drugs and weapons. You cant run a website without rules and claim ignorance. In the same vein, I think the Purdue family and executives of that company deserve to be in jail for life as well.
- I would argue that attempting to have someone murdered is morally wrong.
This doesn't make sense to me. Is someone paying Donald to do this? It's just what he believes libertarians want to hear, he won't do it unless he is being paid for pardons.
- There have been multiple articles that you could get a pardon for 2 million USD. That's the previous time he was president.
Oh whatever. Fuck Trump but Ross Ulbricht isn't as bad as your glorious leaders would have you think. It's time to end the fucking drug war already jfc.
- Are you ignorant of how other countries decriminalize drugs? It's not like it's a free for all. They have services in place to educate people, offer safe and clean environments and give them help when they stop.
  You asshole libertarians just want to make it legal. No other thought, no government services or help. The people can handle it but then you get on the road and see how people handle traffic lol. If you haven't been paying attention the drug war is effectively over. Now they need to decriminalize it properly.

Seems like you like trump and are here to create division. And it looks like you're not an American by your comment "That's cute, Americans talking about privilege while their military industrial complex wages forever wars and their financial imperialism squeezes the entire world."

So I'm going to tag your username with something terrible I'm not going to quote here and block your posts so I don't have to see your divisive bullshit on here anymore.

Reading through the comments it's clear that you're the one bad at this.

Can't have any of those pesky alternate opinions getting in the way of your ignorance.
- I mean, I don't think posting news counts as supporting Trump, but you literally couldn't have picked a less useful reaction
  Also, fuck the Silk Road and its willful enabling of pedophiles. You can sell drugs without that, like God intended, door to door.

bullshit

Here is a short politico article:

Trump pledges to commute sentence of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht if elected [Peder Schaefer | 05/25/2024 | Politico] https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/25/trump-commute-ross-ulbricht-sentence-libertarian-convention-00160025

“And if you vote for me, on Day One, I will commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht,” the former president said, generating cheers from the audience, moments after mentioning his plans to pardon supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

“It’s one of the things we wanted from his first term,” said Katherine Yeniscavich, a national committee member of the party.

Ulbricht has been imprisoned since 2013, and some libertarians say his case is an example of government overreach and the need for criminal justice reforms. Ulbricht’s case was one of the top issues that libertarians asked Trump to address before the convention — and it won Trump his biggest applause of the night.

In another olive branch to the third-party, Trump said he would put a Libertarian in his cabinet if elected, and would also place Libertarians in “senior posts” in his administration.

But despite those promises, Trump received sustained boos and jeers from the crowd throughout his speech, suggesting the pledge to pardon Ulbricht may not be enough.

Edit: added info below

The Hill article, short paragraph on Ross:

Trump draws mixed reactions as he urges Libertarians ‘combine with us’ [Julia Mueller | 05/25/24 | The Hill] https://thehill.com/homenews/4686347-trump-draws-mixed-reactions-as-he-urges-libertarians-combine-with-us/

As part of his appeal to the party, Trump also committed to putting a Libertarian in his Cabinet if he wins the Oval Office in 2024 — and to commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht, who is serving life in prison for his role in operating a platform for buying and selling illegal drugs. Chants of “free Ross” had erupted several times throughout the night’s events.

Ross Ulbricht the six fold murder for hire client

Video of the relevant part of the speech at https://youtube.com/watch?v=RaiI3-ontAE or https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=RaiI3-ontAE

There are not many things I agree with him about, but freeing Ross and fucking Ivanka are two of them.

risking making him the grandfather of your kid
Not worth it
- But Ross would be freed and the alimony would help.
He made the same promise in his first campaign. There’s even less reason to believe it’ll happen after his second election. He won’t need anything from Libertarians after that.
- Are you talking about fucking Ivanka?
fucking Ivanka
Ew.