BREAKING: Ross Ulbricht Officially FREED! * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Noah

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Once again, President Trump has just delivered on another big campaign promise, pardoning and freeing Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht.
54% : " Bharara praised the outstanding investigative work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and its New York Special Operations and Cyber Division, as well as the outstanding investigative work of the following agencies:DEA's New York Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Strike Force, which comprises agents and officers of DEA, IRS, New York City Police Department, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), New York State Police, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Marshals Service, Office of Foreign Assets Control, and New York Department of Taxation.
49% : In May, Trump delivered a speech at the Libertarian National Convention to a hostile crowd of boos in an attempt to win over Libertarian voters.
49% : While the attendees were not favorable to Trump for most of the event, they did give a big cheer when he said he would commute Ulbricht's sentence to time served, as the crowd chanted "Free Ross" in the hopes that the then-presidential candidate would take action if elected to allow the Silk Road founder to return home to his family after more than a decade behind bars.
44% : If you want to understand just how much they weaponized Government against this man, here is the 2015 ICE press release explaining all the things they believe he did wrong: Ross Ulbricht, aka "Dread Pirate Roberts," was sentenced Friday in federal court to life in prison in connection with his operation and ownership of Silk Road, a hidden website designed to enable its users to buy and sell illegal drugs and other unlawful goods and services anonymously and beyond the reach of law enforcement between January 2011 and October 2013.
35% : " Ulbricht was convicted because his website, which was founded in 2011 and used cryptocurrency for payments, was used to sell illegal drugs, even though he did not sell any of the illicit substances himself.
35% : While in operation, Silk Road was used by thousands of drug dealers and other unlawful vendors to distribute hundreds of kilograms of illegal drugs and other unlawful goods and services to more than 100,000 buyers, and to launder hundreds of millions of dollars deriving from these unlawful transactions.
31% : Silk Road emerged as the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet, serving as a sprawling black-market bazaar where unlawful goods and services, including illegal drugs of virtually all varieties, were bought and sold regularly by the site's users.
31% : The vast majority of items for sale on Silk Road were illegal drugs, which were openly advertised as such on the site.
22% : After being sworn into office on Monday, Trump issued several executive actions, including efforts to reduce immigration, designating cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, a move to resume federal executions and pardoning or commuting sentences to time served of people convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
16% : Here is the official post from President Trump on his TruthSocial: And now in the "that didn't age well" file, here is Fox News pointing out that President Trump failed to deliver on his promise because he didn't do it on "Day One": President Trump did not pardon or commute the prison sentence of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the anonymous marketplace website Silk Road, despite his promise on the campaign trail to free him on "day one.

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