President Donald Trump commutes Ross Ulbricht's prison sentence to time served

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : As Trump put it in a Truth Social post: "in honor of [his mother Lyn Ulbricht], and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly, it was my pleasure to have just signed a full and unconditional pardon of her son, Ross."
73% : McArdle repeated her confidence that Trump would make good on his vow last week.
70% : While she has at different times intimated that her cooperation with Trump induced him to make the promise, and also that, as she told Tom Woods on his podcast in June 2024, Trump in fact already signed a pardon for Ulbricht in 2020 but was somehow foiled by underlings, the pardon does indicate that Trump considers a libertarian constituency one he is behooved to do favors for, which is an encouraging sign that he can feel pressured to sometimes do the right thing in libertarian terms.
58% : One just favor for libertarians does not a libertarian administration make, especially not one so dedicated to hobbling free trade, punishing the press, rounding up peaceful immigrants, and pursuing autarkist nationalist industrial policy.
53% : While many doubted Trump would come through, Ulbricht himself seemed confident it would happen, as he expressed in a November post-election X post.
43% : " The Libertarian Party Connection Despite facing criticism for her support of Trump -- and for the L.P.'s falling fortunes in membership, money, and candidates -- Angela McArdle, chair of the Libertarian National Committee, argued for Libertarian support for Trump in large part based on his promise of Ulbricht's release, or at least because he was the type of major party candidate who would release him.
29% : But Trump's coming through on this promise makes a huge difference for one man who did not deserve to spend the rest of his life in prison, and deserves justified applause.

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