The U.S. presidential election is approaching, and both the Democratic and Republican parties have recently expressed their intention to bet on cryptocurrency voters. Among them, Republican candidate Trump has publicly supported cryptocurrency many times in order to attract votes from cryptocurrency voters.
On Saturday, Trump promised at the Libertarian Party National Convention in Washington, D.C., that if he wins the 2024 U.S. presidential election, he will commute the life sentence of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht to time served.
Extended reading: Trump promises to pardon the founder of Silk Road if elected! Criticizes the Biden administration for allowing the encryption industry to "slowly die"
Less than a week later, Trump made another pre-election promise today. The veteran Bitcoin information media "Bitcoin Magazine" tweeted today (28th): "U.S. presidential candidate Trump said that if he is elected president, he will Will seriously consider amnesty for Julian Assange."
Who is Julian Assange?
Julian Assange is the founder of WikiLeaks, a controversial organization dedicated to making government operations transparent and publishing documents from anonymous sources or leaked online. The most famous of these is the release of a video showing pilots using helicopters to attack and kill innocent civilians, including several Iraqi journalists, during a 2007 airstrike in Baghdad by the US military.
As a result of WikiLeaks' high-profile release of 500,000 confidential files, including military records and diplomatic cables, founder Assange was charged with 18 crimes and wanted by the U.S. government. However, because Assange had previously fled to the United Kingdom to seek political asylum, the U.S. government needed to extradite Assange from the United Kingdom to the United States for trial. However, the High Court in London ruled yesterday that Assange was allowed to appeal the decision to be extradited to the United States, suspending his extradition proceedings. If eventually extradited to the United States, Assange would face up to 175 years in prison.
JUSTICE jumped 414% after hearing the news
On the other hand, the governance token JUSTICE issued by AssangeDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization established to support Assange’s release from prison, also surged after the news was announced. According to Coingecko data , the price of JUSTICE once rose to $0.00073435, an increase of as much as 414 %, reported at US$0.0003326 as of press time, up 110.7% in the past 24 hours
