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Trump to announce plans to commute 'Silk Road' website operator Ross Ulbricht’s prison sentence
aol ^ | May 25 | aol

Posted on 05/25/2024 5:58:14 PM PDT by RandFan

WASHINGTON — 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.

Ulbricht was sentenced to life in federal prison in 2015 for creating and operating a hidden website known as the "Silk Road" that people used to buy and sell drugs, among other illegal goods and services.

Many libertarians have called for Ulbricht's release. At the convention on Saturday, the crowd was filled with "free Ross" signs and took up chants in support of Ulbricht.

However, Trump's previous comments about drug dealers are in conflict with Saturday's planned announcement about Ulbricht.

The former president has said that the death penalty should be instituted for certain drug dealers, depending on the severity of the crime.

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1 posted on 05/25/2024 5:58:14 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Dread Pirate Roberts did nothing wrong.


2 posted on 05/25/2024 5:59:43 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: wastedyears

Still waiting for him to come on.


3 posted on 05/25/2024 6:03:40 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: RandFan

So much for Trump’s “Law and Order” stance.


4 posted on 05/25/2024 6:06:59 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: RandFan

“The former president has said that the death penalty should be instituted for certain drug dealers”

I would support this IF bankers who accommodate the cartels face the same fate.


5 posted on 05/25/2024 6:12:30 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: RandFan

That was brilliant and the crowd loved it. If you want Ross freed, DJT is the one to make it happen soonest.


6 posted on 05/25/2024 6:17:00 PM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
So much for Trump’s “Law and Order” stance.

Well, he pardoned a bunch of black drug dealers during his last term in office. Maybe he could pardon a white drug dealer for once?

7 posted on 05/25/2024 6:18:52 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: RandFan
Trump's previous comments about drug dealers are in conflict with Saturday's planned announcement

Unlike the Associated dePressed, I don't see a conflict between endorsing free commerce and executing those who push illegal and deadly drugs to exploited idiots. But then again, I'm a rational American, not a Communist propagandist.

8 posted on 05/25/2024 6:21:41 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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I’m over the moon. Ross has one FRiend here at least look at my post history ive been posting about him since 2020


9 posted on 05/25/2024 6:26:29 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Bad move. This guy is rightly in jail.


11 posted on 05/25/2024 6:35:50 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
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Well, he pardoned a bunch of black drug dealers during his last term in office. Maybe he could pardon a white drug dealer for once?

Well, I guess that's only fair, but they'll call him rayciss anyway.

12 posted on 05/25/2024 6:36:46 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: RandFan

I met his mom at FreedomFest a couple of years ago. 11 years is enough.


13 posted on 05/25/2024 6:40:02 PM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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Definitely

He also touched on crypto issues which many may have missed. They loved that on X too


14 posted on 05/25/2024 6:49:17 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: Reno89519

For the rest of his life?


15 posted on 05/25/2024 6:58:35 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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Ross? Yes.


16 posted on 05/25/2024 7:02:58 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
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To: RandFan

Hunter agrees.


17 posted on 05/25/2024 7:07:08 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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DEA Agent Sentenced for Extortion, Money Laundering and Obstruction in Silk Road Investigation
US Department of Justice ^ | October 13, 2015 | US Department of Justice
Posted on 10/23/2015, 7:28:21 PM by ExyZ

A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for extortion, money laundering and obstruction of justice, which crimes he committed while working as an undercover agent investigating Silk Road, an online marketplace used to facilitate the sale and purchase of illegal drugs and other contraband....


18 posted on 05/25/2024 8:33:33 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Reno89519

I agree. I was stunned when he said he’d commute that guy’s sentence. Not a check in the plus column.


19 posted on 05/25/2024 8:42:59 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (Liberalism is a cancer on our nation.)
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To: Reno89519

You think locking him up for the rest of his life was fair punishment?

There is such a thing as excessive punishment. A lot of the J6ers have received it.

I don’t think anyone but a few hardcore quasi-anarchist libertarian types think Ulbricht didn’t do anything worth punishing. But you need punishment that fits the crime. That’s what the Eighth Amendment is about.

I think many would argue that in Ross Ulbricht’s case, the punishment was excessive. Trump is not offering to pardon him, merely to commute his sentence.

It’s worth noting that everyone else involved in teh Silk Road case got significant ly less time.


20 posted on 05/25/2024 9:30:32 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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