President Donald Trump announced Tuesday on Truth Social that he had pardoned Texas native and Silk Road website founder Ross Ulbricht.

The president granted the unconditional release of the online drug impresario as a favor to libertarians and cryptocurrency ...

President Donald Trump’s pardon of Ross Ulbricht has divided opinion, with some people condemning it as a swing from one ...

Trump said he had called Ulbricht's mother to let her know that he had granted a full and unconditional pardon to her son.

In January 2025, a claim (archived) circulated that U.S. President Donald Trump had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, who was imprisoned for operating the dark web marketplace Silk Road. "I just called the ...

Ross Ulbricht's life sentence for Silk Road, his regrets, and Trump's controversial pardon. Learn about his rise and fall.

Ross Ulbricht, also known as "Dread Pirate Roberts," operated the anonymous digital marketplace known as Silk Road between 2011 and 2013, when law enforcement shut the site down and arrested him at a ...

Console Wars' duo Jonah Tulis and Blake J. Harris have conducted more than 60 hours of interviews with Ulbricht, who became a cause célèbre among Libertarians and cryptocurrency enthusiasts after ...

With his unconditional pardon of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road ... Trump just told the deep state that the weaponization of our government will no longer be tolerated.

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned the creator of the Silk Road dark web marketplace Ross William Ulbricht and called his sentence "ridiculous." Trump criticised the severity of ...

President Donald Trump has signed a “full and unconditional” pardon for Ross Ulbricht The ... foudner and operator Ross Ulbricht. Silk Road was a notorious dark web marketplace selling illegal ...

An earlier version of this article said that Ulbricht was not charged for soliciting murder. He was charged in a separate indictment in Maryland but prosecutors later dropped the charges.