President Donald Trump Signs Executive Order To Pardon Ross Ulbricht’s Sentence

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order granting a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road.

The announcement came through Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, where he stated it was his “pleasure” to grant clemency to Ulbricht, who had been serving a life sentence since 2015.

Ulbricht, 40, was convicted for his role in creating and running Silk Road, a dark web marketplace used for the sale of illegal drugs and other items.

The pardon fulfills a promise Trump made during his presidential campaign, which gained widespread attention among libertarian activists and criminal justice reform advocates.

Donald Trump Justifies Ross Ulbricht Clemency Decision

President Donald Trump has stated his displeasure with the legal process that resulted in Ulbricht receiving a life sentence.

In a post on the Truth Social platform, he called the sentence “ridiculous” and lambasted the actors in the case as “the same freaks” who, he alleged, conspired against him during his time in the White House.

Trump said he had talked to Ulbricht’s mother during his first full day back in the White House and informed her that he would be pardoning her son.

”Ross has done enough time in jail for non-violent crimes,” said Trump. Amid this pardon, bullish momentum has resurfaced with TRUMP memecoin recovering and price soaring to $42.03, a 20% surge from the intra-day low of $32.

The pardon has elicited cheers and jeers as Ulbricht’s case has been a subject of division for quite some time. Some of the people defending him say that the punishment he received was severe while others claim that the platform was used to coordinate large-scale drug distribution.

However, despite the pardon, Ross Ulbricht (ROSS) token price dipped over 51% to trade at $0.01091, as of press time.

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