The Scum Who Brought Them: The Executor of Trump’s Silk Road D-Drug Explanation for his Perverting Crimes

The former creator and owner of an underground e-commerce website known for drug traffickers was pardoned by President Trump on the second day of his presidency.

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. In order to access the site, users had to use anonymity software called Tor and pay with Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency whose transactions are all recorded online.

On Tuesday afternoon, president Trump wrote on Truth Social that he called the mother of Ross William Ulbright to let her know he had just pardoned her son. Some of the same people who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me were the scum that worked to convict him. He was sentenced to two life sentences and 40 years. Ridiculous!

At the time of his sentencing in San Francisco in 2015, Ulbricht was 31 years old. He was convicted for distributing narcotics, engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiring to commit computer hacking, and creating fake identities and launder money. He will spend life in prison.

Meanwhile, the Justice Department pursued charges against Ulbricht’s compatriots who claimed to have committed five murders on his behalf, though the government could never prove those murders actually took place.

Trump is a Cryptologist for Libertarians: Ulbricht’s alleged murders-for-hire

In the indictment, the U.S. Attorney described Silk Road as a meeting place for criminals who wanted to buy and sell illegal drugs and other goods and services outside the reach of law enforcement.

President Trump has been amenable to Libertarian concerns. He will grant a commutation of Ulbricht’s prison sentence at the Libertarian National Convention in Washington in May of 2024, and has gotten very close to people like Musk. Trump has also publicly promised to make the United States the “crypto capital of the planet,” propping up prominent Bitcoin users and supporters.

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

The argument is complicated by allegations that Ulbricht tried to kill six people who were threatening him. Ultimately all six alleged murders-for-hire were fake—one was staged by undercover DEA agents and five more were a scam. After he was sentenced to a life sentence in New York, Ulbricht’s prosecution in Maryland was dropped for only one of the alleged paid killings. Evidence presented during the Ulbricht trial showed him arranging those killings and even showing a payment for them from Ulbricht’s laptop to the would-be killer.