Like Trump literally selling off our planet to the highest bidder by the quid pro quo of asking fossil fuel lobbyists for a billion dollars, he offers a sentence commutation to the Silk Road drug network creator, Ross Ulbricht.
One of the loudest cheers from the audience came when Trump announced his intention to commute the life in prison sentence of “Silk Road” website operator Ross Ulbricht.
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The @LPNational is being cucked by a guy that is afraid of rubber chickens squeaking, kazoos blowing , and people booing
Trump said he was a "libertarian without even trying to be one," and that the Libertarian Party should endorse him, another line greeted by boos and jeers.
Undeterred, Trump poked fun at the crowd, saying if they did not back him, they would continue to garner just a tiny portion of voter support in national elections.
He pledged to put a libertarian in his cabinet if he wins the election, which was met by cries of "bullshit!"
Trump did get huge applause for one promise. A rallying cry for libertarians is the case of Ross Ulbricht, who is serving a life sentence for creating and operating the website Silk Road, which allowed users to secretly buy and sell drugs and other illegal products.
Libertarians believe Ulbricht's 2015 sentence represents government and judicial overreach. In front of a crowd holding "Free Ross" signs, Trump promised to commute Ulbricht's sentence if he wins back the White House.
According to a May 9 Washington Post report, Trump met “with some of the country’s top oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago Club last month” and proposed a “deal” in which they would raise $1 billion for his election campaign and he would apparently, in turn, reverse and stop President Joe Biden’s environmental rules and policies. Notably, Big Oil and industry allies have already poured millions of dollars into Trump's joint fundraising committee to help cover his legal fees.
From May 9, when this story broke, through May 12, MSNBC was the only major broadcast and cable TV news network to cover Trump’s proposition to oil executives. Additional analysis found that from May 9 through May 16 top local newspapers and TV outlets in the largest media markets to reach the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin did not bring the story to local audiences, with just one exception. This omission is part of a trend of mainstream news outlets failing to adequately report on Trump’s extreme positions, particularly about climate change.
Media Matters has now found that a number of mainstream outlets, including broadcast and cable networks, also failed to post on social media about Trump’s comments. Conversely, those same outlets posted about Harris’ use of profane language at a health forum discussion on May 13. During the discussion, Harris said that sometimes “you need to kick that fucking door down” when discussing the importance of breaking down barriers.
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