Trump promises Libertarians a cabinet slot -- and to free a notorious drug kingpin

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : Trump wasn't just competing with Libertarians on Saturday.
43% : "Trump sold gold high-tops at SneakerCon; maybe he can sell us gold dildos to f -- ourselves with," said Thomas Knapp, 57, a delegate from Florida.
42% : A chant of "We Want Trump" was drowned out quickly by "End the Fed!"
42% : Later, three party activists delivered short speeches about where the two sides might agree, but why Libertarians didn't automatically trust Trump -- "a great source of comedy," said LP presidential contender Michael Rectenwald -- after creating Operation Warp Speed to fight COVID and adding trillions of dollars to the national debt.
41% : "I've been indicted by the government on 91 different things," Trump said.
39% : As soon as Trump accepted the Libertarian invite, it was obvious he'd be booed.
38% : "The question isn't just: Can Trump appeal to libertarians?" said Kentucky Rep. Tom Massie, a Republican with strong libertarian views who attended the convention on Friday.
38% : But the attention paid to the party by Trump and Kennedy, and the promises to deliver on even a handful of their issues, showed that the LP was relevant.
37% : "It's also: Can libertarians appeal to Trump?
34% : Donald Trump promised members of the Libertarian Party that he would "put a libertarian in my cabinet" and commute the life sentence of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, a top demand of a political movement that intends to run its own candidate against him.
34% : He got plenty of applause for promising to defend cryptocurrency, but even that sounded more like a reach for some Kennedy voters and anti-establishment independents who were disappointed in Trump's first term.
33% : "Why would you think he's telling us the truth?"Trump walked into a fairly hostile room on Saturday, with plenty of advance warning, and uncertain benefits for a candidate currently leading most swing state polls.
32% : "On day one, we will commute the sentence," Trump said, offering to free the creator of what was once the internet's most infamous drug clearinghouse.
31% : "At the convention itself, the reception for Trump wavered between skepticism and contempt.
30% : "It's time to be winners," said Trump, asking rhetorically if third party delegates wanted to go on getting single-digit protest votes.
26% : In 2018, he'd urged Trump to consider clemency for Ulbricht, and got no response.
25% : Saturday's speech might not have moved many Libertarian voters; the party will pick its nominee tomorrow, and no delegates I met planned to abandon them for Trump.
23% : "One way Trump could do that, said Massie, was to offer a pardon to Ulbricht -- as well as Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.
20% : When Trump called Joe Biden a "threat to democracy," some delegates shouted: "So are you!"
19% : "Trump lies to everybody else," said Nicholas Sarwark, a former LP chair who attended the convention as a commentator.
5% : Candidates for the party's nomination got instant applause when they denounced Trump; some delegates denounced party chair Angela McArdle for inviting Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr."We are the party of principle and we reject you outright," says Lars Mapstead, a Libertarian presidential candidate whose campaign placed signs promoting his plan to deny either Trump or Biden an electoral college majority in the hotel's lobby, until the Trump campaign got them taken down.

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