Commute the sentence of "Silk Road" website operator Ross Ulbricht

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : Over the next four years, we will periodically evaluate the new administration's progress on Trump's 2024 campaign promises, just as we did with Barack Obama, Trump during his first term, and Joe Biden.
53% : Ulbricht's philosophy aligned with those of Libertarians, who value individual liberties and limited government.
38% : At the time, Trump was courting Libertarian voters for their support and vowed to commute Ulbricht's life imprisonment, which would reduce his sentence but not erase the conviction.
36% : Ulbricht, 40, received a life sentence without the possibility of parole in 2015 for creating Silk Road, an online marketplace that sold illegal drugs such as cocaine and heroin.
26% : Trump said on Truth Social that he gave Ulbricht a "full and unconditional pardon," adding that the founder of the dark web marketplace was convicted by "some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me.
16% : Trump reportedly considered granting clemency to Ulbricht in 2020, but did not do so before he lost the presidential election to Joe Biden.
14% : The 2024 election renewed hopes to free him as Angela McArdle, chair of the Libertarian Party, met with Trump in late-2023 where she told the then-former president that Ulbricht was the "victim of prosecutorial overreach and a biased criminal justice system," similar to claims Trump made about his own court cases, The New York Times reported.

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