Trump promised to free Ross Ulbricht. Here's why he should.

Ross Ulbricht created the Silk Road , a dark web drug marketplace that facilitated $1.2 billion in bitcoin-denominated transactions.

He faces a double life sentence plus 40 years with no possibility of parole for creating the site.

Donald Trump made a deal with the Libertarian Party and promised to commute his sentence.

Frida Ghitis : Trump should ignore the saboteurs and keep his promise to free him.

Many who oppose freeing Ross Ulbricht say that he was also a contract killer.

But when you look closer, things get murky.

Prosecutors drew on chat logs from a moment of crisis at the Silk Road .

Trump 's former Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell set up a meeting with the president at Mar-a-Lago .

Ulbricht 's idealistic attempt to make the black market just a little safer by creating a place where people could vet buyers, avoid risky in-person transactions, find untainted drugs, and share safety information.

The last war on the cartels created a power vacuum enabling the rise of "El Chapo" Once he was arrested, others took his place, and the cartel transformed into a more decentralized and resilient structure.