Ulbricht’s fans and family remain unshakably convinced of his innocence and virtuous character: he didn’t do it, you can’t prove he did it, what he did was harm reduction in the war on drugs, he was jailed just for running a website like anyone could, the murders didn’t actually happen so paying to murder people and all their roommates isn’t a crime and shouldn’t have been mentioned in the other trial, he hasn’t been convicted of procuring murder so it probably never happened and he’s really a good guy, he was entrapped into paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to murder someone and all
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I regret to inform you that Alex Winter was also taken by this narrative.
