OAN staff jacob miller
9:51am – Wednesday, January 22, 2025
President Donald Trump fulfilled another campaign promise by pardoning the founder of the controversial Silk Road market.
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President Trump announced a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday.
Ulbricht was sentenced to two life sentences plus 40 years in prison for non-violent crimes related to illegal drug sales on the Silk Road.
There was also a smear campaign that accused Ulbricht of using his site in a murder-for-hire plot. However, he was never charged for that.
Prosecutors who threw the book at the young liberal say they were trying to protect America from bad drugs, but they backfired.
President Trump said he put Mr. Ulbricht behind bars like the same lunatics involved in the weaponization of modern government that were used against him.
Ulbricht completed and served a 10-year sentence. What set Trump free was the promises he made to the libertarian movement.
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