Even his statement is ridiculous. Stretching your imagination to believe he thinks the sentence was too harsh (as he calls for the death penalty for other drug dealers), why did he not just commute his sentence? Why a full pardon? Perhaps this guy bought some Crypto coins????
Trump is not a liar! USA courts exonerated him on a long list of cases
There are no minimum moral standards to become a president, which is against humanity as he supports genocide and invasion of other countries
Donald Trump, who once called for executing drug dealers, pardoned one. The hypocrisy is glaring loyalty and servitude seem to be the price for forgiveness, not justice or fairness. Actions often reveal more than words ever could.
He wasn’t a drug dealer anymore than Amazon is a “dealer” of the slop they have for sale on their website. He ran a website that only allowed approved vendors to sell narcotics that would otherwise have to be found on the street and all the violence that comes with that. Pardon was 110% cynical, yes
Read “American Kingpin” by Nick Bilton if you’re really interested in learning how depraved this last maneuver really is. Excellent book. #BookSky #NonFiction #TrueCrime
Women & women & men of color we're fked. Those white women, men & women of color betraying your own kind you're fked too, voting for that grab 'em by the p'ssy felon, couch fker & billionaires! Trump says, it's meritocracy. It's racism & bigotry & DEI spells white men only! https://youtu.be/ceUs8SPdzOw?...
Not just a drug dealer, the man who made made the cartels trade possible as we know it, he took payments directly FROM the cartels, his sites helped human traffickers and child abusers network… he was not just a “drug dealer” and it’s weird everyone keeps saying it this way.
As a Canadian, I'm going to have a field day with this after his false blathering about drugs coming in through our borders. Like we have 40 people up North.
He is what he is, a liar. Doesn't tell the truth. Doesn't "back the blue," didn't "end the Ukraine war in 24 hrs," he lied about lowering prices. He's a damn liar who doesn't mean what he says vast majority of the time. It's far past time to treat it like it is.
I admire Mehdi for his hard-hitting journalism but he has to understand that when Trump said he wanted to execute drug dealers he meant non-MAGA drug dealers.
He has to realize that not only Trump has full immunity from prosecution, so do his ardent followers.
He says a lot of things and does the opposite. I don’t know why people are not getting this. He’s a terrible person with an agenda to destroy everything this country has worked toward for sooo many years and his followers are all accomplices to this unconstitutional behavior.
A mushroom dealer to be exact. And the founder of the first Tor marketplace.
I am delighted that Ross is free.
He's not Pablo Escobar. And he was never charged with "soliciting murder" over the FBI pretending the Hells Angels had assassinated Curtis the Fentanyl kingpin.
Wants to uphold the constitution, yet rips up the 14th amendment. A president of law and order but releases 1500 convicted felons and is one himself…I mean honestly we could be here for days. #contradictions
sometimes a touch of humor helps lighten things up! It’s fascinating how language and societal perceptions often shape how people are labeled, isn’t it?
mehdi...there was the creme del la creme of the drug world sitting on front row seats at his swearing in...drugs do not flow into America without help from the mafia
More than $200 million in transactions for illegal drugs, hacking services, and counterfeit documents. Add in the money laundering and you've got quite the prince.
But hey, he's white, uses crypto currency and has a following of libertarian voters and cryptocurrency supporters. A Trump kinda' guy!
If y’all haven’t noticed it yet, Trump is mentally insane, has been his whole life, and the oligarchs are using that knowledge to make him a useful idiot for their own causes.
Note Trump's hypocrisy in claiming that all immigrants are r*pists and murderers while pardoning the worst scum. It's a ruse to protect the right to white violence and be a racist.
TRUMP IS INCREASING VIOLENCE AND MAKING AMERICA MORE DANGEROUS. THERE'S YOUR CULPRIT.
It's not a contradiction if you keep in mind that "drug dealer," in Trump's meaning, is every bit as vague and open to expansion as "terrorist" has been since 9/11. It's not a genuine desire to kill actual drug dealers, it's a rhetorical framework to justify killing anyone he doesn't like.
And the converse of that is that he can define people out of being drug dealers, too. If he likes you, if his Nazi followers like you, you aren't a drug dealer.
Also we urgently need to get it through our heads that pointing out seeming contradictions in Trump's rhetoric and policy, even actual ones, is not going to stop him. It's not even going to slow him down. Fascism doesn't need to make internal sense to do what it wants to do. It never has.
They’re going to set up their own drug trade to make money off of the suffering addicts that’s why they want war with the Mexican cartel to cut off that cheaper supply
He is not a drug dealer, he is a health marketplace provider, something the US government has failed to provide adequately for centuries now -
Which is why people turn to black markets, when the captive state market deliberately rigged so the rich get healthy while the poor stay sick fails them.
And at least a billion Americans died because of the government's failure to provide medicine and care as a human right. The population of America would be at least 4 times what it is currently if medicine were guaranteed, as it should be, as an inalienable human right without restrictions.
Those 6 people, had they been served by the US government, would not have turned to an online black market. So the government is the real culprit - you can't blame the poor for selling drugs in this country, which has no guarantee of a living wage, no guarantee of medicine, no real human rights.
If street drugs are $100 and surgery and actual medical care is $200,000, and you are one of the 90% of Americans with less than $3,000 in your bank, in total - guess which one you're getting? You're going to put the bandaid on the wound, even knowing it does nothing.
The majority of US drug dealers have always been white. The black drug dealer is a racist myth by percentage, aimed at mass incarcerating vulnerable people.
I'm well aware of the white prison profit system to monetize Black bodies..(new plantation).. in fact Pfizer is the biggest and most deadly drug dealer ..worldwide
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There are no minimum moral standards to become a president, which is against humanity as he supports genocide and invasion of other countries
But the Biden parsons!!!!
Please spare me the apple to oranges comparison, it’s boring and stupid.
Rachel Maddow said that no Republican in Congress should be allowed to avoid discussing this pardon by Trump, ESPECIALLY those who denied he would.
He has to realize that not only Trump has full immunity from prosecution, so do his ardent followers.
Trump consumes massive amounts of Adderall
(what else??).
Elmo love Ketamine and was high at the Inaug.
I am delighted that Ross is free.
He's not Pablo Escobar. And he was never charged with "soliciting murder" over the FBI pretending the Hells Angels had assassinated Curtis the Fentanyl kingpin.
If you're rich in Trump's America, you can't break the laws or be held responsible.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/silk-road-drug-vendor-who-claimed-commit-murders-hire-silk-road-founder-ross-ulbricht
Can't you see how that's different?
But hey, he's white, uses crypto currency and has a following of libertarian voters and cryptocurrency supporters. A Trump kinda' guy!
He’s an utter buffoon.
Evil
TRUMP IS INCREASING VIOLENCE AND MAKING AMERICA MORE DANGEROUS. THERE'S YOUR CULPRIT.
Which is why people turn to black markets, when the captive state market deliberately rigged so the rich get healthy while the poor stay sick fails them.
What do you call a drug dealer in a lab coat?
A pharmacist.
#POTUSForHire