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Elon Musk drops shocking detail into his influence over Trump as First Buddy lobbies for...

• https://www.dailymail.co, By STEPHEN M. LEPORE

Elon Musk used his 'First Buddy' privileges to sit in with Donald Trump in the Oval Office as the president pardoned Ross Ulbricht Tuesday, while revealing a man known as 'Bitcoin Jesus' could be next. 

Ulbricht, 40, was arrested in 2013 because the dark website he founded facilitated the sale of illicit drugs using cryptocurrency. 

'I was honored to be in the Oval Office tonight when @POTUS signed this,' the Tesla founder wrote on X in response to the pardon. 

In early 2015 Ulbricht was sentenced to two life terms in prison plus 40 years for drug trafficking, conspiracy to commit money laundering and computer hacking, operating under the pseudonym 'Dread Pirate Roberts.' 

Trump granted an unconditional pardon to Ulbricht, the creator of the notorious dark web page Silk Road, in honor of the 'Libertarian Movement,' while slamming the 'scum' who prosecuted him.

Though the president has been clear that his pal 'will never be president,' Musk - the chair of the Department of Government Efficiency - made clear that he was in the room with Trump when he put pen to paper on the pardon.

Musk appears to be trying to use his influence on Trump while he's in the room, as Ian Miles Cheong replied to him asking for clemency for the so-called 'Bitcoin Jesus' Roger Ver.

'It's Roger Ver's turn. End the lawfare,' Cheong wrote to Musk.

'That's up to the President, but I have asked whether this is possible,' Musk responded.

Ver, who allegedly raked in millions of dollars selling his stash of Bitcoin, was arrested in Spain last April for fraud charges and ducking capital gains taxes.

The Department of Justice's indictment claims California-born Ver didn't report the capital gains he made from selling tens of thousands of bitcoins in 2017, allegedly netting him $240 million and losing the US Treasury $48 million in tax money.

Ver, 45, calls himself 'Bitcoin Jesus,' and his high-flying social media pages makes clear why he bestowed himself the self-righteous nickname. 

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