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Donald Trump Pardon List Every Person Granted Clemency by the President
On 1/19/21 at 12:23 PM EST
President Donald Trump was expected to pardon more than 100 people in his final hours in office. The list of people Trump pardoned was announced early on Wednesday, and revealed that Trump pardoned 73 people and commuted the sentences of 70 more.
Among those hoping to be pardoned were some rioters who stormed the Capitol building earlier in January, though they were not pardoned by the president. They ll be another abuse of power by a corrupt, failed, one-term, twice-impeached president who has routinely undermined the rule of law, the constitution, and our democracy.
President Trump is considering clemency for Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace, before he leaves office.
Sources told the Daily Beast that the president was considering commuting Ulbricht s sentence and had been reviewing documents related to his case at the White House.
Ulbricht, 36, launched Silk Road in February 2011. The site, which the FBI shut down in October 2013, connected buyers and sellers on the dark web, usually for drug deals. It facilitated at least 1,229,465 transactions and generated 614,305 bitcoins in commissions. At the time of his arrest, that represented $183 million. At today s values, that amounts to $12.7 billion in cryptocurrency.