Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of “Silk Road”.

President Trump on Tuesday pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, the notorious dark web marketplace once known as a thriving online marketplace for illegal drugs.

Trump announced the news about it Truth Social writingsaid that the pardon is in honor of Ulbricht’s mother and the Libertarian movement.

In 2015, a federal judge sentenced Ulbricht to life imprisonment For running the Silk Road under the alias “Dread Pirate Roberts”. But last May, while on the 2024 campaign, Trump promised to commute Ulbricht’s life sentence Speaking at the Libertarian National Convention.

Ulbricht launched Silk Road as a Libertarian experiment, and the party has been lobbying for years to acquit Ulbricht of his crimes. Many within the libertarian party saw Ulbricht’s life sentence as a symbol of government overreach.