Trump Just Fully Pardoned One Of The Biggest Drug Dealers In History

But, wait: doesn’t Trump want to execute drug dealers on the spot, without trials?

Yes he does. Except this drug dealer, who ran the not-so-subtly named “Silk Road” marketplace, is Elon Musk’s friend.

Ross Ulbricht had been serving a life sentence after being convicted of  “distributing narcotics on the Internet and engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise.” To the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin. It only took the jury 3 1/2 hours to return their verdict. Following that sentence, prosecutors did not pursue evidence Ulbricht also used Silk Road to put hits out on people he saw as threatening the business. (That’s at least part of why Trump didn’t pardon him in his first term, when he already was in prison.)

But Musk likes him a lot because he helped popularize the use of Bitcoin in a big way, by making it the premier currency for anonymous online transactions. Which in this and many other cases largely means paying for illegal things. So in that sense, Ulbricht is a true internet pioneer. Problem is, the more of a pioneer you think he was, the guiltier he must naturally become.

As surpising as this may sound, none of this is surprising. And if you dig deeper on your own, I promise you, you won’t find any “oh, now I see why this makes sense” revelations. The only thing that comes close is the argument that Ulbricht did not hold or directly sell drugs himself, though he did rake in commissions and fees.

The only revelation here is that Trump is even more unapologetically applying the law unequally based on his assessment of whether people like him or not than we’ve seen before. He even put a cherry on top of this move by calling prosecutors in the Silk Road case “scum”.

Kill drug dealers in cold blood? Sure. Shoot US citizens on the street if they’re exercising free speech but saying things you don’t like? Sure!

Based on Trump’s overall statements about drug dealers, Ulbricht should’ve been shot where he stood. By law enforcement that had been granted 100% immunity.

Except that only applies maybe 80% of the time…

With a chosen few being above the law. Several prime examples of this including not just the Ulbricht case; also the release this week of even the most violent January 6th criminals.

And more to come…so make some friends now while you can; and pledge allegiance to whomever you have to, and maybe you too can be the cream that rises to the top AKA a criminal who’s allowed to operate in the open, because that’s where this is headed.

In the meantime, it makes me mad because I hate to have to write something every single damn day just to keep the record straight on all this naked hypocrisy. Hypocrisy that will kill people. But that’s where we are. Already. Two days in.