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Ross Ulbricht's prison letter sparks tears after Trump pardon

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    Center

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    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    48% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -46% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : In his Truth Social announcement about Ulbricht's pardoning, President Trump said he made this action to honor "the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly."On Timcast IRL, Massie read Ulbricht's letter, which thanked him for being a constant and powerful voice for his campaign for freedom.
34% : This was a dark web website which, per the Department of Justice, facilitated the distribution of "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."
34% : President Trump has embraced Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, so his Justice Department may take on fewer cases that crack down on the use of Bitcoin.
29% : "Massie, who said that he believed Ulbricht was subject to "a ridiculous over sentencing, regardless of guilt or not," told the podcast hosts that Ulbricht was actually ready to settle for a sentence communication, but Trump gave him a full pardon.
24% : Massie also stressed that Ulbricht's pardon is an example of how elections matter, as without Trump he would have "rot in prison.
22% : "President Trump said: "The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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