Trump Pardons Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Donald Trump has pardoned one of the most notorious US criminals of this century, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht. Silk Road was an online black market that mainly dealt in illicit goods and services ...

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President Trump granted a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road drug marketplace. Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.

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-- The New York Times (@nytimes.com) January 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM

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Trump has previously called for the death penalty for violent drug dealers. Now he is setting one of the worst ones free.

#1 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-01-22 01:30 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 2

Only the best people.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-01-22 05:45 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Follow the money.

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-01-22 05:46 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

This is a bad thing

#4 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-01-22 09:16 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Unholy Effing Sheet. That's all I can say. The pardon was bad enough but the message? The right has zero claim on law and order now and for the foreseeable future. Ross broke the law. Ross enabled others to break the law. Ross fostered and enabled a massive amount of crime including violent crime.

#5 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-01-22 09:56 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Who bought Trump for this one? Mexican Cartels? Mafia?

#6 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-01-22 09:58 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Apparently Putin's bitch had a change of heart about executing drug dealers.

#7 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-22 10:13 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Law and order pays only so well...

#8 | Posted by catdog at 2025-01-22 01:53 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

The scammer in chief loves a good scammer.

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-22 01:54 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Joe Biden's family and Leonard Peltier approve this message.

#10 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-22 02:06 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#10 - I think I'm going to call you the stunning idiot from now on.

#11 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-22 02:07 PM | Reply

Both Trump and Biden say the DOJ is unfairly biased. So I will call you Blindy McBlinderson.

#12 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-22 02:17 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Ok Stunted. Please provide the exact quote from Biden. I'm curious.

#13 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-22 02:32 PM | Reply

Trump is bummed out that Manson, Bundy, Dahlmer and Gacy are no longer around to release from prison. His kind of guys.

#14 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-01-22 02:57 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

They really gave him life for silk road? That's insane to begin with. Now he's free and has 100,000 btc in his wallet, even more insane.

#15 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-01-22 03:15 PM | Reply

Good. That sentence was absolutely insanely unjust, and he should never have been convicted in the first place.

Now give Leonard Peltier a full pardon and apology like Carter, Clinton, Obama, and Biden should have in their first weeks in office.

#16 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-01-22 03:33 PM | Reply

They really gave him life for silk road?

#15 | Posted by sitzkrieg

No, silk road was just one piece of it. They gave him life for narcotics trafficking, forgery, hacking, money laundering and conspiracy to commit murder.

#17 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-01-22 03:41 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Nobody was murdered, he never handled drugs, he did no forgeries, he didn't hack anybody, he didn't launder any of his money.

He got caught up in RICO charges.

#18 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-01-22 04:17 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Nobody was murdered, he never handled drugs, he did no forgeries, he didn't hack anybody, he didn't launder any of his money.

He got caught up in RICO charges.

#19 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-01-22 04:17 PM | Reply

Let me extend that. He got caught up in RICO charges on conspiracies he wasn't actually party to.

Paying fake assassins is one thing, but getting charges for making a site people use to setup drug deals means we can also round up the CEOs of pretty much every tech company. Except they're rich, so we won't, and there's definitely not a double standard going on with the DOJ making an example out of it to the rest of the poors.

#20 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-01-22 04:34 PM | Reply

Trump has empathy for those that have also been victims of our corrupt legal system.

#21 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-22 05:59 PM | Reply

Trump has empathy

LOL. Sure.

#22 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-22 06:03 PM | Reply

Please provide the exact quote from Biden. I'm curious.
So, no quote.

#23 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-22 06:18 PM | Reply

Attributed to Biden, "baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families. Even when individuals have done nothing wrong and will ultimately be exonerated, the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage their reputations and finances"

#24 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-22 06:51 PM | Reply

That's a piss poor attempt.
I can't even say it's tangential to the argument.

#25 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-22 07:13 PM | Reply

Blindy McBlinderson, I'm not surprised you can't see it.

#26 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-22 07:50 PM | Reply

I'm good with not seeing what you see.
That is an indication of my sanity and solid mental health.

#27 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-22 09:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

They really gave him life for silk road? That's insane to begin with. Now he's free and has 100,000 btc in his wallet, even more insane.

#15 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-01-22 03:15 PM | Reply | Flag:

He was given two life sentences plus another 40 years for a nonviolent crime.

#28 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-01-23 10:36 AM | Reply

He's pardoning 'all the best'.

That was a sarcasm for extremely slow
witted in the room (aka Maga types).

#29 | Posted by earthmuse at 2025-01-23 10:42 AM | Reply

Trump has empathy for those that have also been victims of our corrupt legal system.

#21 | Posted by visitor_

Trump and this drug dealer are equally innocent.

Your cult is fully on board with crime now as long as it's done by rich white guys.

#30 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-23 02:40 PM | Reply

Blindy McBlinderson, I'm not surprised you can't see it.

#26 | Posted by visitor_

Your cult leader just pardoned a criminal for cash. You ripped out your eyes and shoved them up your ass.

#31 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-23 02:41 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#24 | Posted by visitor_

Yes that's what the DOJ does when it's under trump's fascist control. It's NOT what it does when under democratic control.

#32 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-23 02:42 PM | Reply

When Dotard mused about killing drug dealers he means black and Hispanic drug dealers. In 2018 I arrested a white dealer who was selling fentenyl on the dark web. He had a MAGAt hat in his hotel room. I asked him about that, and what he thought of Dotard's promise to execute guys like him. His reply was, "he's not going to execute me, I'm a white MAGA supporter,he means the ni@@@rs and the s@@cks." This despicable pardon proves the point.

#33 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2025-01-23 02:55 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Remember when magat scum cared about fentynal?

I remember.

They obviously don't

Remember when magat scum cared about the sexual exploitation of children?

I remember

They obviously don't

TOOO FARKING FUNNY

This is what you voted for magat scum

#34 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-23 11:23 PM | Reply