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Why President Trump Should PARDON SAMOURAI | Keonne Rodriguez of Samourai Wallet
Today I talk with Keonne Rodriguez, co-founder of Samourai Wallet, who is set to report to prison on December 19 unless he gets a pardon from President Trump… In April 2024, two Bitcoin software developers, Keonne Rodriguez and William "Bill" Lonergan Hill, were violently arrested in their homes in a pre-dawn militarized raid by the FBI for running Samourai Wallet—a non-custodial Bitcoin wallet—despite no prior warni
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2 And the reason you have this reaction, which is a normal reaction to have, 3 is because you think the justice system has anything to do with justice, but it doesn't.
6 We like to think that the prosecutor's office is a noble office, 7 and the role of the prosecutor is to find out the truth.
9 The prosecutor's only role is to take down the person that they've put the target on, no matter what.
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And the reason you have this reaction, which is a normal reaction to have,
is because you think the justice system has anything to do with justice, but it doesn't.
The justice system has nothing to do with justice.
It has nothing to do with truth.
We like to think that the prosecutor's office is a noble office,
and the role of the prosecutor is to find out the truth.
But that is not the case.
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Today I talk with Keonne Rodriguez, co-founder of Samourai Wallet, who is set to report to prison on December 19 unless he gets a pardon from President Trump… In April 2024, two Bitcoin software developers, Keonne Rodriguez and William "Bill" Lonergan Hill, were violently arrested in their homes in a pre-dawn militarized raid by the FBI for running Samourai Wallet—a non-custodial Bitcoin wallet—despite no prior warnings and full compliance with the law as they and their advisors understood it.
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