Trump pardons founder of dark web market Silk Road

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Trump's decision to pardon Ulbricht in his second term, rather than the first, has raised some eyebrows, but it makes good a promise he made last year at a convention held by the Libertarian Party, which argues for limited government and robust civil liberties.
43% : In one of his first actions after starting his second term as US President, Donald Trump has issued a pardon for Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the dark web marketplace Silk Road.
33% : The platform - which was a notorious source of a plethora of illicit goods including illegal drugs, weapons and counterfeit goods - was shut down in 2013 after a major law enforcement operation.
27% : "The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponisation of government against me," Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social media site.

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