Trump failed to deliver 'Day 1' promise to grant clemency to Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road

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53% : " Trump later reiterated his promise to commute Ulbricht's life sentence at a bitcoin conference, which he received loud cheers for.
52% : " Ulbricht reacted to Trump's comments the following day on the social media platform X. "Last night, Donald Trump pledged to commute my sentence on day 1, if reelected," he wrote.
51% : Read On The Fox News App 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.
51% : Ross's pardon will be issued late tonight or tomorrow morning," Libertarian Party chair Angela McArdle wrote Monday night on X. Elon Musk, who serves in the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency in the Trump administration, also said Ulbricht would be released soon.
50% : " "Trump is done signing EOs and pardons for the night," 2024 Libertarian presidential candidate Chase Oliver wrote on X. "Hopefully, we will see a #FREEROSSULBRICHT commutation in the morning."
48% : "Ross will be freed," Musk wrote on X. Many Libertarians have said they supported Trump in November's election, citing, in part, his commitment to free Ulbricht. Trump Pardons Nearly All 1/6 Defendants During his first term, Trump considered intervening to release Ulbricht before ultimately deciding against a pardon.
44% : Trump Vows To Commute Prison Sentence Of Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht 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.
44% : We're going to get him home," Trump told the crowd of Libertarians, many of whom were holding signs that read "Free Ross.
43% : Despite Trump failing to deliver on his promise to free Ulbricht on his first day back in office, the president reportedly may still grant him clemency as early as Tuesday.
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.
27% : 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.
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.

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