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Trump pardons infamous drug trafficker—wait, what?

Editorial Board Published January 22, 2025
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Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned the creator of Silk Street, a dark-web market the place individuals offered heroin, cocaine, LSD, and different illicit medication by utilizing cryptocurrency to maintain the transactions nameless and keep away from being caught by regulation enforcement.

Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in jail for creating the web site, wherein he made thousands and thousands of {dollars} profiting off of unlawful drug gross sales in addition to the sale of unlawful providers, resembling laptop hacking and solid paperwork, like passports and Social Safety playing cards.

“Make no mistake, Ulbricht was a drug dealer and criminal profiteer who exploited people’s addictions and contributed to the deaths of at least six young people,” Preet Bharara, the now-former United States lawyer for the Southern District of New York whose workplace prosecuted Ulbricht in 2015, stated in a press release on the time.

However Trump has now pardoned Ulbricht and set him free, marking the second time in as many days that Trump let criminals again onto the road. On Tuesday, he pardoned roughly 1,500 Jan. 6, 2021, insurrectionists, lots of whom violently assaulted regulation enforcement officers.

Pardoning a serious drug trafficker is weird for Trump, who has vowed to provide the dying penalty to drug sellers.

“We’re going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, gets caught selling drugs, to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts,” Trump stated in November 2022. “Because it’s the only way.”

Nevertheless, final Could on the Libertarian Nationwide Conference, Trump pledged to pardon Ulbricht in trade for Libertarians’ vote. Libertarians have fought for Ulbricht’s launch since they help wide-ranging drug legalization and considered Ulbricht’s life sentence as authorities overreach.

“If you vote for me, on Day 1, I will commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht,” Trump stated on the conference as the gang chanted Ulbricht’s title. “He’s already served 11 years. We’re going to get him home.”


Memecoins have been tackled by cartoonist Jen Sorensen approach again in 2018.

Within the Reality Social put up asserting Ulbricht’s pardon, Trump wrote that his pardon is making good on his pledge to Libertarian voters.

“I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbricht 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,” Trump wrote. “The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me. He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!”

What’s extra, Ulbricht is supported by crypto bros, who’ve been arguing for Ulbricht’s launch for years.

Bitcoin Journal hailed Ulbricht’s pardon, which known as it a “monumental victory for Bitcoiners.”

Trump can also be now a cryptocurrency fan, following the launch of his memecoin. Right here’s the way it was described by Washington Submit columnist Catherine Rampell:

For these unfamiliar, this type of crypto token or “memecoin” is launched and traded on public markets, type of like a inventory. In contrast to shares, nonetheless, memecoins haven’t any money circulation, no elementary worth. There’s no declare to a enterprise’s future income, nor even the pretense of a enterprise mannequin. There’s no clear use case; nobody is pretending $TRUMP can be utilized in real-world transactions to pay for groceries or a haircut, or to ship remittances.

Reasonably, individuals purchase memecoins resembling $TRUMP solely as a result of they assume another person is likely to be keen to pay extra for them sometime. It’s mainly a whizbang-sounding Ponzi scheme.

Now that crypto has apparently made him even richer, Trump fancies himself one of many crypto bros and did them a stable by releasing Ulbricht.

A lot for regulation and order. 

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