Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht given full pardon by Donald Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : "Immense gratitude to everyone who voted for President Trump on my behalf.
58% : " Trump said he called Ulbricht's mother to let her know that he was signing the pardon in honor of her and the Libertarian Movement, which he said had supported the president strongly. "Ross Ulbricht has been a libertarian political prisoner for more than a decade.
48% : Sources said that Trump reviewed documents related to Ulbricht's case and expressed sympathy for his situation.
42% : In 2020, near the end of his first term in office, it was reported that Trump could pardon Ulbricht before departing the White House.
28% : In November, a few days after Trump was elected president, Ulbricht posted a message on X that he dictated to his wife from prison.
25% : Trump did pardon 73 people and commute the sentences of another 70 as one of his final acts, but Ulbricht was not among them.
20% : In a post on his Truth Social network, Trump wrote, "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.

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