Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump characterized a subset of federal government employees as “scum.”
While some pearls will no doubt be clutched out there among the Big Government fan base, he’s not wrong.
On Truth Social the president wrote: “I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbright to let her know that in honor of her and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly, it was my pleasure to have just signed a full and unconditional pardon of her son, Ross.”
This pardon, which readers of This Is Common Sense have certainly heard about before, was a long time coming. Ross Ulbricht had been sentenced for establishing and running The Silk Road, a Dark Web marketplace, way back in 2015.
Interestingly, Trump pardoned Ross, as he put it, in honor of Ross’s mother and friends — chiefly libertarians, specifically in the Libertarian Party. This may be the most significant thing the Libertarian Party has accomplished in years: a man is free.
Then we read the killer sentence: “The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me.” While Trump defined the pardon as a matter of honor, the most important point may be who he is dishonoring.
But of Ross’s plight, Trump wrote, “He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!”
Yes, ridiculous. Overkill. The inhabitants of permanent government were trying to send a message: they would not allow commerce outside the scope of their moderation and oversight.
Trump now sends a different message. He knows what his enemies are.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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The DOJ and FBI were operating their largest operation in US history chasing and harassing Jan 6 participants. Not organized crime. Not human traffickers. Not drug dealers. Not criminal gangs. Not jihadists or terrorist cells.
When the Democrats start wailing about broken families, they need to be reminded of the broken families of 1500 patriots that cared about their country and were protesting an election that appeared to have been stolen.
Curious that evidence that could prove it conclusively is still being hiden.
4 years now that the 300,000 ballot records from Fulton county have illegally STILL not been released as required under the Georgia Public Records Act.
Fifteen hundred traitors. Should have been hung!