Trump Pardon's Silk Road Website Founder

[Zorba]

Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road website. He was serving a life sentence.

How do you declare drug cartels terrorist organizations and then immediately turn around an pardon the best drug trafficker on the internet. The fact that the crypto "industry" loves this guy just shows there is really no legitimate use for their product.

Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace

Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.

www.nytimes.com

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Trump is in on the scam wrt crypto, the cartels aren't wheeling and dealing.

All you need to know.

 

[brycejones]

How do you declare drug cartels terrorist organizations and then immediately turn around an pardon the best drug trafficker on the internet. The fact that the crypto "industry" loves this guy just shows there is really no legitimate use for their product.

Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace

Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.

www.nytimes.com

Good deal Trump is tough on crime!

 

[Zorba]

Trump is in on the scam wrt crypto, the cartels aren't wheeling and dealing.

All you need to know.

I guess that is true. If the cartels just cut him in, he'd decide they were the best thing ever.

 

[VRAMdemon]

WTF! ... This guy literally overlooked a market on his site that sold heroin over the internet. As well as money laundering and countless other hacking crimes.

Trump's rationale for putting tariffs on China/Mexico/Canada is because of black market drugs pouring through the borders.

More Bullshit.

Trump hates drug dealers, but he thinks money laundering is a legitimate business, so they cancel out.

"This guy didn't sell drugs he just set up an entire network that drug dealers could use to sell drugs!! See the dfference?" They need to come up with better excuses

 

[MrSquished]

The answer is simple - these people literally have no actual morals, decency, or humanity. And they never will. And at this point, folks here that support the Trump party, on a fundamental level, they lack those things as well. Their morals are merely performative and nothing more.

 

[brycejones]

Trumpy wants to be the crypto president.

 

[VRAMdemon]

Trumpy wants to be the crypto president.

I'm going to wager Trump most likely never heard of the guy until last week. Barron and his boyfriend Martin Shkreli are likely behind this.

 

[Brainonska511]

Republicans and Trump are going to speed run touching every stove in politics.

 

[Jaskalas]

So the President wanted to buy a drug dealer. Maybe Don Jr. put in the order.

 

[uallas5]

I'm going to wager Trump most likely never heard of the guy until last week. Barron and his boyfriend Martin Shkreli are likely behind this.

Trump was speaking at a Libertarian event last year and the crowd kept booing him. Then Trump spotted the "Free Ross" signs, and said he would pardon him if he became president, probably without actually knowing who he was. The crowd cheered and started supporting Trump. He probably would have forgotten all about it but then Trump found out about the grift called crypto.

 

[HomerJS]

Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road website. He was serving a life sentence.

How do you declare drug cartels terrorist organizations and then immediately turn around an pardon the best drug trafficker on the internet. The fact that the crypto "industry" loves this guy just shows there is really no legitimate use for their product.

Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace

Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.

www.nytimes.com

Because Trump and the people in Camp Trump are idiots without an ounce of moral fiber in their being.

And I'm not sure they even know it.

 

[cytg111]

I dont get it. Why? Dark money campaign contribution????????

 

[Pens1566]

I dont get it. Why? Dark money campaign contribution????????

Another place where Donny Jr can score coke.

 

[hal2kilo]

I dont get it. Why? Dark money campaign contribution????????

How about birds of a feather.

 

[nakedfrog]

I dont get it. Why? Dark money campaign contribution????????

The only thing I've seen are references to him agreeing to do it at that Libertarian convention, and it's not like he gives any actual shits about the law, if it gets him votes, he'd pardon just about anyone I think.

 

[BoomerD]

Maybe now it makes sense...

$47M Bitcoin wallet linked to Silk Road founder re-surfaces after a decade

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht's untouched Bitcoin stash worth $47 million discovered by Coinbase director Conor Grogan.

cryptoslate.com

 

[uallas5]

This is an article about what happened at the Libertarian Party convention I mentioned in my above post.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/25/politics/libertarian-party-trump-convention-speech/index.html

Former President Donald Trump was loudly and consistently booed throughout his speech Saturday at the Libertarian Party’s national convention, particularly when he asked attendees to “nominate me or at least vote for me.”

The heckling began the moment the former president took the stage, and some of his supporters in the room tried to drown out the boos with chants of “We want Trump.”

One of Trump’s few loud applause lines Saturday came when he announced that if elected, he would commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the underground website Silk Road, which let users anonymously buy and sell anything from drugs to hacking tutorials. Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 following his conviction on seven counts ranging from money laundering to drug trafficking, and many attendees at the Libertarian convention have been arguing for his pardon.

 

[manly]

NYT reported yesterday that it was a quid pro quo with the Libertarian Party.

NYT - How Trump Was Persuaded to Pardon an Online Drug Kingpin

Absolutely ridiculous that felons like Ulbricht and Tarrio got full pardons, and not just commutations.

 

[cytg111]

So. Campaign contribution. Got it.

 

[Zorba]

NYT reported yesterday that it was a quid pro quo with the Libertarian Party.

NYT - How Trump Was Persuaded to Pardon an Online Drug Kingpin

Absolutely ridiculous that felons like Ulbricht and Tarrio got full pardons, and not just commutations.

Just remember the real corruption is the Fauci pardon...

 

[cytg111]

At this point an Alien invasion of brainworms is more likely to explain this timeline.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Maybe now it makes sense...

$47M Bitcoin wallet linked to Silk Road founder re-surfaces after a decade

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht's untouched Bitcoin stash worth $47 million discovered by Coinbase director Conor Grogan.

cryptoslate.com

Granted I think life in prison was too long a sentence, perhaps 25 years might have been acceptable along with confiscation of all proceeds of criminal activity.

But "Only in America" can you:

1) Set up on online market place to sell illegal narcotics on the dark web
2) Launder your illegal market place proceeds
3) Facilitate drug sells that might have resulted in overdoses (as alleged in the complaint)
4) Supposedly stash millions from criminal activity in a dormant wallet that somehow was not confiscated (as stated in the article above)
5) Spend only 10 years in jail and get released one day because you have crypto bros and paid lobbyists trying to free you

I remember watching the American Greed episode regarding Ross Ulbricht. He allegedly paid an undercover FBI agent to kill someone during the course of doing business because he felt betrayed. The government wound up not charging him for murder for hire.

What will Ross will be up to next? Will he turn back to a life of crime? Or will he enjoy a life of luxury spending his bit coin money?


This reminds me of Bill Clinton's infamous pardon of Marc Rich:

Marc Rich - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Nice to have friends in high places, I guess.

 

[cytg111]

Granted I think life in prison was too long a sentence, perhaps 25 years might have been acceptable along with confiscation of all proceeds of criminal activity.

But "Only in America" can you:

1) Set up on online market place to sell illegal narcotics on the dark web
2) Launder your illegal market place proceeds
3) Facilitate drug sells that might have resulted in overdoses (as alleged in the complaint)
4) Supposedly stash millions from criminal activity in a dormant wallet that somehow was not confiscated (as stated in the article above)
5) Spend only 10 years in jail and get released one day because you have crypto bros and paid lobbyists trying to free you

I remember watching the American Greed episode regarding Ross Ulbricht. He allegedly paid an undercover FBI agent to kill someone during the course of doing business because he felt betrayed. The government wound up not charging him for murder for hire.

What will Ross will be up to next? Will he turn back to a life of crime? Or will he enjoy a life of luxury spending his bit coin money?


This reminds me of Bill Clinton's infamous pardon of Marc Rich:

Marc Rich - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Nice to have friends in high places, I guess.

That is exactly the case against crypto is it not? You can have dark money stashed away to operate on your behalf even though you're tossed in the darkest pit, all other assets confiscated.