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Trump to announce plans to commute 'Silk Road' website operator Ross Ulbricht's prison sentence

May 26, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -22% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    2% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -59% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

37% : Former President Donald Trump plans to announce at the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday that he intends to commute "Silk Road" website operator Ross Ulbricht's life in prison sentence, according to a source familiar with the matter.
37% : ""While in operation, Silk Road was used by thousands of drug dealers and other unlawful vendors to distribute hundreds of kilograms of illegal drugs and other unlawful goods and services to more than 100,000 buyers, and to launder hundreds of millions of dollars deriving from these unlawful transactions," said a 2015 Immigration and Customs Enforcement press release announcing Ulbricht's sentencing.
31% : Separately, the crowd cheered one Libertarian Party member's suggestion that "we go tell Donald Trump to go f--- himself.
28% : On Friday night, the libertarian crowd was hostile to mentions of Trump, and the audience booed when Vivek Ramaswamy brought up the former president.

*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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