The Pardoned Silk Road Founder and Host of the Underground E-Commerce Site Run by the Trump-Mike-Theory Campaign

The founder and owner of an underground e-commerce website was pardoned by President Trump on his second day in office.

Ulbricht’s early writings on the ideas behind Silk Road emphasized his desire to create a free and anonymous marketplace, to “use economic theory as a means to abolish the use of coercion and aggression amongst mankind,” according to a public LinkedIn post. The site was only available to users who used anonymity software and paid with a virtual currency called Bitcoin.

“I phoned the mother of Ross William Ulbricht to let her know that I signed a full pardon in honor of her and the Libertarian movement, which supported me strongly,” Trump said on his website. The scum that worked to prosecute him were people that were involved in the weaponization of government against me. He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. It’s ridiculous!

Ulbricht will be free after he is sentenced to life in prison, thanks to Donald Trump.

The Justice Department pursued charges against people who claimed to have committed five murders on Ulbricht’s behalf, even though they couldn’t prove those murders actually happened.

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In an indictment, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara described Silk Road as a meeting place for criminals hoping to “buy and sell illegal drugs and other illicit goods and services anonymously and outside the reach of law enforcement.”

President Trump has been amenable to Libertarian concerns. He was going to commute the sentence of Ulbricht, also known as Silk Road, during the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, in May of 2024. The United States will become the “thief capital of the planet” thanks to Trump’s promises.

Ulbricht, for his part, took to social media to celebrate Trump’s election victory and remind him of his promise. He wrote on X one week after the election that he can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

It’s difficult to argue that Ulbricht tried to have six people killed who presented a threat to him or the Silk Road. Ultimately all six alleged murders-for-hire were fake—one was staged by undercover DEA agents and five more were a scam. Ulbricht was charged with only one of those alleged paid killings in a separate prosecution in Maryland, which was then dropped after he received a life sentence in his New York trial. But evidence presented at Ulbricht’s trial showed him allegedly arranging those killings and even pinpointed transactions on Bitcoin’s blockchain that showed a payment for them from Ulbricht’s laptop to the would-be killer.