Angela McArdle: What role did the Libertarian Party play in freeing Ross Ulbricht?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : This decade-long effort culminated in a dramatic turn of events during the Libertarian National Convention last year, where Trump appeared and gave a speech in which he promised to free Ulbricht.
49% : During the production of that, I interviewed McArdle, who had met with Trump and told him that freeing Ulbricht was a major priority for libertarians.
49% : This is the full conversation that Reason conducted with McArdle before the inauguration on December 13, 2024, about what her conversation with Trump was like, how the meeting came about in the first place, and what the terms of the deal actually were.
33% : The site was only accessible through the anonymizing network known as Tor, and transactions for all sorts of illegal drugs were made in bitcoin.

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