Former President Donald Trump vowed to commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the “Silk Road” website, during a Saturday speech.
Ulbricht was sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years in prison for creating the site that was used for a wide variety of illegal transactions, including the sale of narcotics, hacking services and false IDs, according to a 2015 Justice Department press release. Trump announced his intention to commute Ulbricht’s sentence during the address to the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, D.C. (RELATED: ‘My Goodness’: CNN Data Guru Breaks Down How Bad Biden Is Doing With Black Voters)
“If you vote for me, on day one I will commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht who will have a sentence of time served,” Trump told the attendees, who broke out into applause after booing the former President on some occasions during the…
