{"id":37833,"date":"2025-01-21T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=37833"},"modified":"2025-01-21T18:00:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T18:00:40","slug":"trump-did-not-free-ross-on-day-one-because-of-course-he-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=37833","title":{"rendered":"Trump Did Not Free Ross On Day One Because Of Course He Didn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"

Follow Aaron on <\/em>Nostr<\/a> or <\/em>X<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not here to say \u201cI told you so.\u201d<\/p>\n

In my\u00a0Take<\/a> from October 4, I did write that Donald Trump does not give a damn about Bitcoin, and in my\u00a0Take<\/a> from November 5 I wrote he just wants in on the crypto scam. But I didn\u2019t mention Ross Ulbricht in either of these, largely because even I expected Trump to at least follow through on his promise to free Ross. It\u2019s an easy promise to keep, without any real downside for Trump; after more than ten years in prison Ulbricht deserves to be free.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t really expect Trump to free Ross on day one of his presidency, however. Inauguration day is quite a busy day for a new president, I\u2019m sure.<\/p>\n

Having said that, it is what Trump himself\u00a0<\/em>said<\/a> he would do. Of course Trump also said that he would have resolved the war in Ukraine by now \u2014 apparently they\u2019re\u00a0still fighting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump is a\u00a0bullshitter<\/a>. He will just say whatever he wants or whatever people want to hear, with no regard for the truth. He probably has the most recorded lies out of any politician on earth: Fact checkers from The Washington Post have for example counted over\u00a030,000 false or misleading claims<\/a> during his first term as president alone.<\/p>\n

Still, it is also true that Trump had a busy day yesterday. He signed 26 executive orders (a record<\/a> amount for a first day president), and pardoned over 1500 of his supporters; those who stormed the US Capitol Building on January 6th four years ago. Yes, that means the QAnon Shaman walks free before Ross Ulbricht (H\/T\u00a0Trey Walsh<\/a>)\u2026 but let\u2019s just hope that Elon Musk is proven right in the next few days, and\u00a0Ross will be freed too<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article is a <\/em>Take<\/a><\/em>. Opinions expressed are entirely the author’s and do not necessarily reflect those of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Magazine.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Follow Aaron on Nostr or X. I\u2019m not here to say \u201cI told you so.\u201d In my\u00a0Take from October 4, I did write that Donald Trump does not give a damn about Bitcoin, and in my\u00a0Take from November 5 I wrote he just wants in on the crypto scam. But I didn\u2019t mention Ross Ulbricht […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":37834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}