Non-USian here. I'm interested in why.
Given that Trump didn't pardon Ulbricht during his first presidential term, why now?
What does Trump, who is notoriously transactional, get in return for this? Alternatively, what signal is he sending and to who?
To be honest if Trump would've pardoned him in his first term it would've been way too short of a sentence for what he did. Though I hate the usual libertarian defense that makes him out to be an innocent martyr, I think that 10 years is somewhat enough for what he did. It would have been a normal sentence in a lot of countries outside the US.
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