Ross Ulbricht, Founder of Silk Road

[mamooth]

I wonder how much this drug dealer who aided and abetted contract killings, drug peddling, child pornography, and identity theft bribed Trump to pardon him.

You know he had a hell of a lot of bitcoins stashed away, so he definitely had the cash.

Needless to say, every Trump cultist on this thread supports the guy who created a child trafficking haven.

 

[MisterBeale]

Trump Pardons Notorious Drug Trafficker. Wait What?

In the Truth Social post announcing Ulbricht's pardon, Trump wrote that his pardon is making good on his pledge to Libertarian voters. "I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbricht to let her know that in honor of her and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly, it was my...

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Yesterday at 2:52 PM

 

[theHawk]

Ulbricht started the Silk Road by selling his own hallucinogenic mushrooms on his website. Several kilos worth he had grown himself.


"We're going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, gets caught selling drugs, to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts. Because it's the only way." - Donald J. Trump

"If we don't get tough on drug dealers, we're wasting our time, just remember that, we're wasting our time, and that toughness includes the death penalty." - Donald J. Trump

So he should get life in prison for shrooms?




You people are nuts.

 

[progressive hunter]

Wrong.

He started the site by selling hallucinogenic mushrooms he had grown himself.

Also, you left out the full story, dipshit. He created a web site which aided and abetted contract killings, child porn, drug dealing, and identity theft.

god still loves you G,,

 

[Auld Phart]

As soon as you post evidence Biden received $5 million bribes from China and Ukraine, I will.

I never said he did.

making up more shit, creepy?

 

[g5000]

I warned in 2016 pied piper Trump would lead his cult into the far left cave.

Look at them now.

Pushing drugs and child porn and contract killings is okay!

In need of some child porn? Need your wife knocked off? How about some meth? Come on down to the Silk Road!

 

[Auld Phart]

I warned in 2016 pied piper Trump would lead his cult into the far left cave.

Look at them now.

Pushing drugs and child porn and contract killings is okay!

In need of some child porn? Need your wife knocked off? How about some meth? Come on down to the Silk Road!

 

[MisterBeale]

In need of some child porn? Need your wife knocked off? How about some meth? Come on down to the Silk Road!

 

[Blaster]

He should sue the government.

 

[The Duke]

Ulbricht started the Silk Road by selling his own hallucinogenic mushrooms on his website. Several kilos worth he had grown himself.


"We're going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, gets caught selling drugs, to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts. Because it's the only way." - Donald J. Trump

"If we don't get tough on drug dealers, we're wasting our time, just remember that, we're wasting our time, and that toughness includes the death penalty." - Donald J. Trump

And-?

 

[Luckyone]

Why Trump Pardoned ‘Silk Road’ Founder Ross Ulbricht

On his second day back in office, President Donald Trump issued a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of dark-web marketplace Silk Road. Trump had pledged to free Ulbricht as part of a raft of promises made to the cryptocurrency community while on the campaign trail.

Who is Ross Ulbricht?​

Ulbricht was once better known by his online pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts” — a character from the film The Princess Bride. In 2011, he founded Silk Road, an online exchange that enabled users to anonymously buy and sell illegal goods and services with Bitcoin and other virtual currencies. During the two years it was in operation, more than $200 million worth of illicit activity flowed through the site, according to the Department of Justice.

What was Ulbricht convicted of?​

Convicted in 2015, Ulbricht’s pardon was issued 11 years into his double-life sentence without the possibility of parole for drug trafficking crimes, as well as conspiracy to commit computer hacking and money laundering. While prosecutors alleged he had also tried to arrange five murders to protect his business, the government said it didn’t believe any were carried out.

Why did Trump want Ulbricht freed?​

Pardoning Ulbricht was an easy opportunity for Trump to curry favor with the crypto industry and libertarian voters.

Pardoning a convicted-for-2-life-terms criminial that had a "without the possibility of parole" for DRUG TRAFFICKING sentence, is supporting Law and Order?

This was a man that was convicted in 2015 (before Trump was even in the political arena) and that was not part of anything that Trump did that was supported by a supporter. This was ALL about currying favor with the Bitcoin community (which he is part of as he is selling a form of Bitcoin).

Do you support this?

 

[Nostra]

Libtards are all for legalizing drugs.............until they aren't.

 

[martybegan]

Pardoning a convicted-for-2-life-terms criminial that had a "without the possibility of parole" for DRUG TRAFFICKING sentence, is supporting Law and Order?

This was a man that was convicted in 2015 (before Trump was even in the political arena) and that was not part of anything that Trump did that was supported by a supporter. This was ALL about currying favor with the Bitcoin community (which he is part of as he is selling a form of Bitcoin).

Do you support this?

When were the owners of craigslist prosecuted?

 

[Contumacious]

Pardoning a convicted-for-2-life-terms criminial that had a "without the possibility of parole" for DRUG TRAFFICKING sentence, is supporting Law and Order?

This was a man that was convicted in 2015 (before Trump was even in the political arena) and that was not part of anything that Trump did that was supported by a supporter. This was ALL about currying favor with the Bitcoin community (which he is part of as he is selling a form of Bitcoin).

Do you support this?

Ross' offense was a VICTIMLESS CRIME
There was NO VIOLENCE
Prior to 1913 ALL DRUGS were legal - there were no opiod crisis, overdoses , etc

A Life Sentence? , Child please

 

[OldFlame]

Pardoning a convicted-for-2-life-terms criminial that had a "without the possibility of parole" for DRUG TRAFFICKING sentence, is supporting Law and Order?

This was a man that was convicted in 2015 (before Trump was even in the political arena) and that was not part of anything that Trump did that was supported by a supporter. This was ALL about currying favor with the Bitcoin community (which he is part of as he is selling a form of Bitcoin).

Do you support this?

You do know that the actual people selling the drugs using his platform served less time and some are already out of prison? Murderers get less time than this guy did, maybe these pardons won't be needed when sentencing is reigned in and similar crimes are doing similar times.

 

[Dante]

This ...​

what would you call it? TRE45ON Trump and his MAGA crowd (not all people who voted for Trump in 2016, or in 2020 or in 2024 are MAGA), call people who savagely attacked Law Enforcement who were protecting our duly elected representatives -- call them heroes, freedom fighters (freedom to what, freedom to illegally stop an election?), political prisoners. And well under half of Americans disagree, but "so what?" says TRE45ON Trump and his MAGA crowd. Libertarian Kooks were nice to me to us, so yuge drug dealer -- Free at Last!

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How Trump Was Persuaded to Pardon an Online Drug Kingpin​

Libertarian and crypto allies of Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for distributing drugs on his Silk Road website, leveraged President Trump’s desire for political support to secure his release.

In December 2023, Angela McArdle, the chair of the Libertarian Party, flew to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Donald J. Trump.​

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Mr. Trump wanted to know how to win over libertarian voters, a constituency he thought could help him reclaim the presidency, Ms. McArdle said in an interview. She had an answer: Free Ross Ulbricht, a Bitcoin pioneer who was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 for creating Silk Road, the world’s largest online drug marketplace. Mr. Ulbricht was regarded as a libertarian hero for building an illegal market outside the government’s reach.​

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“I love freeing people,” Mr. Trump said, according to Ms. McArdle. Five months later, she hosted him at the Libertarian Party’s national convention, where he announced onstage that, if elected to the presidency, he would release Mr. Ulbricht.​

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On Tuesday, the day after his inauguration, Mr. Trump made good on that promise. He called Mr. Ulbricht’s mother, Lyn Ulbricht, to personally tell her that he had granted a full pardon to her son, who is now 40. In a post on Truth Social, Mr. Trump said the decision was “in honor of her and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly.”​

"What is the law?" - The Island of Dr Moreau

"The law? Bronx cheer!" - djt


Learn the Law!

 

[odanny]

Man this kid is smart, he studied some high level engineering at well reknowned universities, he could have made a lot of money just working a normal job but he wanted the dark money from the dark web. He had almost a life sentence but is now free as a bird.

 

[Dante]

Pardoning a convicted-for-2-life-terms criminial that had a "without the possibility of parole" for DRUG TRAFFICKING sentence, is supporting Law and Order?

This was a man that was convicted in 2015 (before Trump was even in the political arena) and that was not part of anything that Trump did that was supported by a supporter. This was ALL about currying favor with the Bitcoin community (which he is part of as he is selling a form of Bitcoin).

Do you support this?

This ...? No way anyone with any honor could support it​

what would you call it? TRE45ON Trump and his MAGA crowd (not all people who voted for Trump in 2016, or in 2020 or in 2024 are MAGA), call people who savagely attacked Law Enforcement who were protecting our duly elected representatives -- call them heroes, freedom fighters (freedom to what, freedom to illegally stop an election?), political prisoners. And well under half of Americans disagree, but "so what?" says TRE45ON Trump and his MAGA crowd. Libertarian Kooks were nice to me to us, so yuge drug dealer -- Free at Last!

 

[Contumacious]

This ...? No way anyone with any honor could support it​

what would you call it? TRE45ON Trump and his MAGA crowd (not all people who voted for Trump in 2016, or in 2020 or in 2024 are MAGA), call people who savagely attacked Law Enforcement who were protecting our duly elected representatives -- call them heroes, freedom fighters (freedom to what, stop an election?), political prisoners. And well under half of Americans disagree, but "so what?" says TRE45ON Trump and his MAGA crowd. Libertarian Kooks were nice to me to us, so yuge drug dealer -- Free at Last!

Americans swore to DEFEND AND SUPPORT OUR CONSTITUTION AGAINST ALL ENEMIES - Those who steal elections are enemies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Dante]

Man this kid is smart, he studied some high level engineering at well reknowned universities, he could have made a lot of money just working a normal job but he wanted the dark money from the dark web. He had almost a life sentence but is now free as a bird.

Libertarian Kook.

I bet, The kind who worships and adores Ayn Rand