The United States president pardoned the founder of the underground illicit drugs marketplace, as part of a raft of sweeping announcements during the first two days of his new administration.
During his first full day as the 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump announced a formal pardon for Ross Ulbricht , the creator of the underground illicit drugs marketplace Silk Road .United States President Donald Trump declared a pardon for the founder of the underground illicit drugs marketplace Silk Road as part of a raft of sweeping announcements during the first two days of his new administration.
"Ross Ulbricht has been a libertarian political prisoner for more than a decade," a statement from Libertarian National Committee chair Angela McArdle said. "Silk Road has emerged as the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the internet today," FBI agent Christopher Tarbell said in a criminal complaint lodged by the agency in 2013.
Donald Trump first signalled during a rally in May, 2024 that he would look to help free Ulbricht, amid an ongoing 'Free Ross' campaign sparked by his imprisonment a decade earlier. Monica Barratt, a criminal and justice studies and drugs policy expert from RMIT university, first started researching the Silk Road marketplace in 2011 and said she quickly noticed some of the ideals demonstrated by Ulbricht online.Photo shows A laptop computer sits open on a bed in a dark room showing an email account on screen." was a very keen libertarian.
"The kind of connections between the libertarians and cryptocurrency … were the way that Silk Road operated and the way that dark net markets that arose after Silk road was shut down by the FBI were operating. Mr Trump wants to impose tariffs of up to 10 per cent on China and up to 25 per cent on Canada and Mexico for the alleged influx of the drug across the US border."He seems to have no trouble saying what he needs to say to the people he's speaking to and, in a matter of minute or hours, he says what he needs to say to the people he's talking to at that time and those two things might be in direct contradiction.
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