Ross Ulbricht has been freed by President Trump with a full pardon! Thank you for keeping your word to me and others who have been advocating for Ross’ freedom, Mr. President! #freeRoss pic.twitter.com/wOJVFX1DaA
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 22, 2025
Donald Trump, listen to @ComicDaveSmith and abide by your promise to pardon Ross Ulbricht today. The man deserves justice after suffering for over a decade. #FreeRoss #FreeRossDayOne pic.twitter.com/Fr0TPpKpSe
— Dave Benner, Nemesis of Neocons (@dbenner83) January 20, 2025
?Trump has officially declassified the assassination files for MLK, JFK, and RFK
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) January 23, 2025
He asked his aide to give the pen he signed the EO to RFK Jr.
We just witnessed history pic.twitter.com/b0gDoTGvV4
JUST IN: An emotional Ross Ulbricht (@RealRossU) thanks President Trump for pardoning him, says Trump is a “man of his word.”
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 24, 2025
Ulbricht spent over 11 years in prison and was set to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
“I'm a free man now. So let it be known that Donald Trump… pic.twitter.com/43IQuqGuVP
Trump has spent the last five days demonstrating to every corner of the Right from the tech bros to nativists to now libertarians that it is better to be part of a winning coalition.
“In December 2023, Angela McArdle, the chair of the Libertarian Party, flew to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Donald J. Trump.
Mr. Trump wanted to know how to win over libertarian voters, a constituency he thought could help him reclaim the presidency, Ms. McArdle said in an interview. She had an answer: Free Ross Ulbricht, a Bitcoin pioneer who was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 for creating Silk Road, the world’s largest online drug marketplace. Mr. Ulbricht was regarded as a libertarian hero for building an illegal market outside the government’s reach.
“I love freeing people,” Mr. Trump said, according to Ms. McArdle. Five months later, she hosted him at the Libertarian Party’s national convention, where he announced onstage that, if elected to the presidency, he would release Mr. Ulbricht.
On Tuesday, the day after his inauguration, Mr. Trump made good on that promise. He called Mr. Ulbricht’s mother, Lyn Ulbricht, to personally tell her that he had granted a full pardon to her son, who is now 40. In a post on Truth Social, Mr. Trump said the decision was “in honor of her and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly. …”
This isn’t complicated.
Trump needed marginal libertarian voters to win in 2024 and he promised them he would do this.
Looks like Chris Cantwell’s site has been taken down or he finally gave up on his mostly ignored podcast. Unfortunately over the past year it seemed he had given up on himself and his show. I think his prison experience broke his will. Not sure if he went back to the bottle, but I’m assuming so. I’ve heard from others that he is a sloppy drunk and when drinking he loses himself and becomes a filthy degenerate. Hopefully he gets back on the wagon soon and pulls himself together again.