{"id":19738,"date":"2025-01-25T03:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T03:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=19738"},"modified":"2025-01-25T03:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T03:17:11","slug":"creator-of-dark-web-marketplace-issues-message-to-donald-trump-after-release-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=19738","title":{"rendered":"Creator of dark web marketplace issues message to Donald Trump after release from prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Donald Trump’s presidential pardons are already flowing, and while\u00a0Tiger King<\/em>‘s Joe Exotic<\/a>\u00a0is vexed that he’s been glossed over again, thousands have had their crimes pardoned. These include the January 6 rioters, Washington D.C. police officers Andrew Zabavsky and Terence Sutton, and his latest move on January 23 saw 23 anti-abortion protestors pardoned. The biggest of all is undoubtedly Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the\u00a0dark web marketplace known as Silk Road<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ulbricht had been serving double life in prison plus 40 years without the possibility of parole since he was convicted in 2015, with crimes including engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, distributing narcotics by means of the internet, conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to traffic fraudulent identity documents, and conspiracy to commit computer hacking.<\/p>\n

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Ulbricht’s supporters have been calling for his release for years ( Spencer Platt \/ Staff \/ Getty)<\/cite><\/div>\n

There has been a vocal campaign to free Ulbricht since he was first arrested by the FBI in 2013, and while on the campaign trail, Trump told 2024’s Libertarian Party National Convention that he would pardon the Silk Road founder if he returned to power. Like his vows to clamp down on immigration and ‘drill, baby, drill’, President Trump wasted no time in commuting Ulbricht’s sentence.<\/p>\n

Posting on X, Ulbricht thanked the POTUS in a lengthy speech. Reminding us how he was serving life without parole and had been locked up for over 11 years, Ulbricht said: “He let me out, I’m a free man now. So let it be known that Donald Trump is a man of his word.<\/p>\n

“Thank you so much President Trump for giving me this amazing blessing.”<\/p>\n

Saying that he is ‘so grateful’ for his new-found freedom, Ulbricht adds that he has his life and future back: “This is such an important moment for me and for my whole family. It’s an important moment for everybody who has been working for this for years. This is a victory, and it’s your victory too.”<\/p>\n

He referred to it as an important moment for everybody who “loves freedom and cares about second chances.”<\/p>\n

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