Former President Donald Trump urged a raucous crowd of libertarian voters to ditch their party and endorse his re-election campaign Saturday night at their national convention, slamming the third party for only polling at “three percent.”
Former President Donald Trump urged a raucous crowd of libertarian voters to ditch their party and endorse his re-election campaign Saturday night at their national convention, slamming the third party for only polling at “three percent.”
“Nominate me or at least vote for me,” he asked the crowd of Libertarian party and MAGA voters at the Washington Hilton. “We need your help. We need your support.”
“We’re going to have a lot of fun,” Trump said at the top of his speech, adding he “sure as hell” is a libertarian now after being indicted by the federal government and extended his “hand in friendship” to the third party.
Trump’s remarks were met with a mix of chants to “lock him up,” boos, “we want Trump” and “end the Fed” throughout his remarks — and the crowd erupted in shouts when asked for the Libertarian Party’s endorsement.
He tried to court the voters by listing off the ways he agrees with the Libertarian Party: “everyone here tonight believes in the same fundamental freedom of religion, freedom of the right to own a firearm and freedom taxation.”
He also made some concessions to the third party, promising he would put a libertarian in his Cabinet, securing crypto, and commuting the sentence of Silk Road dark web founder Ross Ulbicht to “down to time served” if he got into the Oval Office again — giving the libertarians one of their key requests.
Ulbicht has been serving life imprisonment since 2015 after being convicted of several crimes relating to his creation of the darknet website Silk Road, which sold narcotics and other illicit substances.
