Trump Is Considering Clemency for Silk Road Founder

[mtr1979]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KiO8GRgwDk​

Fake news this guy didn't do sh!t. It was an IRS agent named Gary L. Alford who first identified Ross Ulbricht using google searches.

https://www.businessinsider.com/irs-agent-discovered-identity-of-silk-road-kingpin-using-google-searches-2015-12?international=true&r=US&IR=T

 

[oyarde]

Was the informant being pd wiit citizens tax dollars ? Reason I ask is I'd have a whole different opinion on it.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1773008125102104973

 

[Anti Globalist]

Trump had plenty of opportunities to pardon him and many others. Shouldn't be surprising that he ended up not following through.

 

[Matt Collins]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eOrh4Dwhm4

 

[Matt Collins]

Thomas weighs in:

 

[Occam's Banana]

Added to thread OP:

RELATED:

• Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht arrested, tried, convicted
• Trump to address LP 2024 national convention
  
  (esp. wrt this post and this post)​
• Trump's "Day One" test
• Trump pardons Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht
• Thomas Massie discusses Ross Ulbricht on Timcast

 

[unknown]

I listen to the book American Kingpin on Audible a couple of years ago. I wanted Ross to get away with it, but what I want doesn't matter.

He did indeed order hits on people, but he was dealing with undercover federal agents. One of those agents eventually went to prison for sealing bitcoins.

At the most Ross Ulbricht should have received twenty years in prison, but it isn't about justice it is about revenge. They try to make the feds in this book look like heroes, but anyone with average intelligence can see how the feds dropped the ball multiple times. It shouldn't have taken so long to catch the guy. Things like law enforcement going to the wrong address.

If my memory serves me right they caught the guy because they went to a forum where Ross created a username to advertise his website. Ross used his personal email to create his user account. This was after the feds spent millions trying to catch him.

https://www.amazon.com/American-Kingpin-Criminal-Mastermind-Behind/dp/1591848148

The "hitmen" were actually Fedbois?

 

[Brian4Liberty]

THREAD: Trump's "Day One" test

It's almost time. I give it a 50/50 chance that he will keep his campaign promise to pardon Ulbricht.

 

[mtr1979]

The "hitmen" were actually Fedbois?

What happens to people when they try to hire undercover law enforcement to kill their spouse?

 

[Snowball]

Crypto & a lot of creeps selling darkness

Jail it is

Criminal “libertarians “ crack me up

in full agreement.

 

[Matt Collins]

For the first time that I can recall, the Libertarian Party leveraged their position of potential power effectively by striking a deal with Trump to get a commutation/pardon of Russ Ulbricht.

The LP has always had this type of potential but unfortunately they have never put it into play until this cycle. They had power but never understood it or were unwilling to exercise it.

The strategic playbook for the LP, on a national level, should always have been to run a solid Presidential candidate hard in the swing states and force both Republican and Democrat parties to make concessions on policy matters. That is the LP's most direct path to power on the federal level.

Hopefully this lesson is well learned and the LP continues down this strategic political path of gaining more power over the decades to gain more and more pro-liberty actions and policies from the Republicans and Democrats.

I do think they went a little overboard in their execution by hosting Trump and saying favorable things about him prior to the action he took (he does some liberty things, but cannot be confused for a pro-liberty President). But overall I commend them for making the pardon happen.

Also, to add... I think having a Presidential candidate who has been a victim of the deep state and weaponization of the DOJ themselves, made him much more sympathetic to the cause of justice here. Thankfully I think Trump will now be a lot more skeptical of people charged and convicted of "crimes" in the future which should help limit the government's actions in some areas. His skepticism of the federal government should lead to greater restrain I'm hoping.