Trump Frees Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht After 11 Years in Prison

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : "I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbright 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," president Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday evening, misspelling Ulbricht's last name.
61% : Now, after being sentenced to life in prison and spending more than a decade behind bars, Ulbricht will walk free, thanks to Donald Trump -- and to the president's ever-closer ties to the American cryptocurrency world.
54% : Many of Ulbricht's supporters have long argued that the Silk Road was a principle libertarian experiment in free trade, one in which Ulbricht allowed only "victimless crime" -- despite prosecutors demonstrating at his trial that at least six people died of opioid overdoses from drugs linked to the Silk Road.
30% : Donald Trump pardoned the creator of the world's first dark web drug market, who is now a libertarian cause célèbre in some parts of the crypto community.

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