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Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Pardoned by President Trump

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    -6% Center

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -14% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    19% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : "I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbricht to let her know that in honor of her 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," Trump wrote on a Truth Social post.
55% : Then candidate Trump promised a "Day One" commutation of Ulbricht's sentence last May, while addressing the Libertarian Party convention The price of bitcoin (BTC) rose in the minutes following the news, possibly as the pardon, along with a flurry of executive orders over the past hours, signals the president's intention to follow through on campaign promises.
37% : President Trump has followed through on one of his key campaign promises -- at least for those in the crypto community -- pardoning the sentence of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht.

*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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