President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had granted a pardon to Ross William Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace.
Ulbricht, who was accused of creating the shadowy e-commerce site the Justice Department had described as “the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet today,” had been serving a life sentence on charges related to the operation.
Commentary from an anonymous contributor:
Who is Ross Ulbricht?
Ulbricht is the epitome of human filth. This is a man who created a platform which openly facilitated human sex trafficking of children and kidnapped women, which openly bought hit contracts on the lives of others, and which served as an open marketplace for cartels to trade narcotics.
It sold materials to pedophiles, up to and including snuff films which depicted young girls being raped and murdered on camera.
Ross didn’t just run the website that let this happen, he openly courted the business, taking numerous meetings with cartel members to push usage of his site so he could get a cut of the action.
When Ulbricht was finally caught, he tried to use this platform to hire hitmen to kill the witnesses that were going to put him in jail.
Donald Trump just called those who put this monster behind bars “scum”. And for what? Because the libertarian party gave him a few votes for his own power.
THIS is the level of depravity that Trump represents. He doesn’t care about ANYTHING as long as those who commit the most heinous acts imaginable agree to help him attain power. To Donald Trump, profiting off the kidnapping, torture, rape and murder of young girls is just part of the deal, and are negotiable pieces on the board.
There’s scum involved in this equation, alright, and that scum is Donald Trump and anybody who supports this decision. Ulbricht is a line in the sand character for me, and anybody who supports or supported him is the most vile filth on this planet and of no use to this society or my support. Ever. Full stop. And yes, that includes people whom I would normally support in government including Rep Thomas Massie who has also taken the position that selling people and destruction for nothing more than money is just “freedom”.