Donald Trump has fulfilled the promise he made to the Libertarian Party’s National Convention in May by pardoning Ross Ulbricht. The Silk Road founder had been a few years into a life sentence for founding and running the famous dark web marketplace…
Trump said “the scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern-day weaponization of government against me.” Silk Road allowed anonymous Bitcoin-using free exchange of (often illegal) items in safety with an escrow service. None of the seven charges levelled at Ulbricht, a student of Murray Rothbard, related to the sale of an illegal substance or harm to life or property…
Ulbricht’s judgement was marred by questions surrounding unproved allegations made by the prosecution involving his apparently planning murders for hire. Trump’s decision to release him has been praised by figures including former Binance chief Changpeng Zhao. He’s free now…
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”