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. And he did another Executive Order this week to help start facilitating that. Except this drug dealer, who ran the not-so-subtly named “Silk Road” marketplace, is Elon Musk’s friend. (Just like another more small time dealer, who would’ve been shot on the spot under Trump’s stated terms, got pardoned by Trump in his first term because she was a friend of Kim Kardashian).

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…