Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the now-defunct darknet drug market previously known as Silk Road, thanked President Donald Trump for setting him free and hinted at what he has planned for his ...

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In Truth Social post, the president claimed that the same individuals that convicted Ulbricht were "the same lunatics" that were involved in the weaponization against him. Ross Ulbricht ...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he issued a pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison nearly a decade ago for creating the Silk Road, a website law enforcement called the ...

In January 2025, a claim (archived) circulated that U.S. President Donald Trump had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, who was imprisoned for operating the dark web marketplace Silk Road. "I just called the ...

President Donald Trump’s pardon of Ross Ulbricht has divided opinion, with some people condemning it as a swing from one ...

The self-declared "pro-crypto president" Donald Trump pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht on Tuesday. Ulbricht, 40, was about 10 years into his life sentence for helming an online black ...

Ross Ulbricht, 40, was arrested in 2013 because the dark website he founded facilitated the sale of illicit drugs using cryptocurrency. In early 2015 he was sentenced to two life terms in prison ...

President Donald Trump said he granted a pardon Tuesday to Ross Ulbricht, founder of the online marketplace Silk Road — a campaign promise Trump had made to libertarian voters. In a post on his ...

Languages: English. Kentucky Congressional Representative Thomas Massie went on Tim Pool's Timcast IRL podcast to share a letter written to him from now-pardoned Ross Ulbricht that moved him to tears.

In a historic move, Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road marketplace, has been granted a full pardon by President Donald Trump. This monumental decision not only reignites debates about ...

“If you vote for me, on day one, I will commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht,” Trump told attendees of the Libertarian Party’s convention back in May. Angela McArdle, Libertarian National ...