Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Kingpin of the Bitcoin Drugs-and-Murder Online Market Silk Road

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : "It was my pleasure to have just signed a full and unconditional pardon of her son, Ross," Trump wrote on that platform.
41% : " This is unusual, considering that Trump had been president from 2017-2021, and never mentioned Ulbricht, who was convicted years earlier, or made a single public statement about him.
30% : In another sop to the libertarian crypto bros, President Trump has pardoned the San Francisco founder of the Silk Road online drug marketplace, indicating Trump's increasing fondness for crime among the cryptocurrency crowd.
29% : Trump said on Truth Social that he had spoken with Ulbricht's mother about the pardon, a pardon that Trump had promised before the election when speaking to some Bitcoin-crypto convention.
12% : CBS News reports that on Tuesday, Trump pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2013 for operating the early "dark web" site Silk Road that was largely an Amazon for illegal drugs and maybe the occasional murder-for-hire.
9% : And while Trump may complain about illegal drugs crossing the border and the San Francisco drug trade, he also just released a San Francisco man who effectively dealt more drugs than every Honduran national in the Tenderloin combined.

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