Martin Regley
01/22/2025 at 6:51 p.m.
For his second day in the White House, the new President of the United States pardoned the creator of “Silk Road”, described by some specialists as the “Ebay” of drugs. The man, incarcerated since 2013, was sentenced to life in prison in 2015.
He was incarcerated in 2013, sentenced to life in prison in 2015, but he is now free. Two days after his inauguration as the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump granted a “total and unconditional” pardon to Ross Ulbricht, founder of a site on the darknet “Silk Road”, on which many drugs were found. sold.
Launched in 2011, the site has enabled numerous drug dealers and others to make more than $200 million in sales using the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. A sort of “Ebay” of drugs declared the specialists at the time.
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“It’s ridiculous” says Trump
For Donald Trump, who announced the news yesterday, Tuesday, on his Truth Social network, the people who “worked for his conviction” are “scum”. “They are some of the same madmen who participated in the government’s modern weaponization against me. He was sentenced to two life sentences, plus 40 years. It’s ridiculous,” insisted the head of state.
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-After being pardoned, Ross Ulbricht was released from a federal prison in the state of Arizona late Tuesday. Joshua Dratel, his lawyer, said his client was “extremely pleased that an injustice has been corrected.”
From now on, and still according to the council, Ross Ulbricht intends to take advantage of Donald Trump’s gift to “have a productive life that he could have had during all these years” of incarceration.
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An action welcomed by libertarians
In the process, the Libertarian Party, which has campaigned for years for the release of Ross Ulbricht, welcomed Donald Trump’s action. “He has been a libertarian political prisoner for over ten years. I am proud to say that saving his life was one of our top priorities and it ultimately paid off,” said Libertarian National Committee Chair Angela McArdle.
During the short two years of Silk Road’s life, more than 4,000 drug traffickers were able to expand their activities on the Internet. According to prosecutors, all sold quantities of drugs on a scale “never before seen” to more than 100,000 buyers around the world. Ross Ulbricht reportedly collected nearly $18 million in Bitcoin thanks to commissions.
