Source: Reason
by Nick Gillespie
“‘If you vote for me, on day one, I will commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht,’ proclaimed Trump last May while addressing the Libertarian National Convention. The request was on a list of 10 demands the Libertarian Party shared with Trump before he spoke. If Trump has failed to follow through on his other memorable promise from the convention — he said he would ‘put a Libertarian in my cabinet’ — this one is still in play. It would right a small but potent wrong when it comes to the carceral state, the deep state, the drug war, and a host of related bastions of state overreach. By most accounts a model prisoner who has been behind bars for almost a dozen years, Ulbricht deserves his freedom.” (01/14/25)
https://reason.com/2025/01/14/reminder-donald-trump-promised-to-free-ross-ulbricht-on-day-one/