Libertarian Party of New Hampshire endorses Trump, says he's best option to 'Free New Hampshire'

"The most libertarian party in the most libertarian state," as the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire calls itself, has spurned its own nominee Chase Oliver and thrown in its lot with Republican Donald Trump as its best option for "creating a Free New Hampshire," LPNH announced on X Monday night.

"Donald Trump is not a libertarian" but he's better than Oliver, who "spends his time supporting tax-funded trans surgery for prisoners, advocating for literal murderers, and trying to kick our members out of the Libertarian Party entirely" and on top of that "cannot win," the party wrote.

Citing libertarian-leaning Kentucky GOP Rep. Thomas Massie, who belatedly endorsed Trump last month, LPNH noted Trump pledged to free Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht from his life sentence for narcotics distribution and running a criminal enterprise, a darknet that used Bitcoin. "Free Ross" ads are common at transit stops in D.C.

Trump was the first president in more than three decades to start "no new wars" and pledged to "end the importation of anti-liberty migrants" and appoint liberty-minded X owner Elon Musk, libertarian legend Ron Paul and failed GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to shrink the federal government, the statement reads.

He received "endorsements from the greatest libertarians in America, including Thomas Massie," promised to shut down the Department of Education, endorsed cryptocurrency and "[f]lirted with ending the income tax entirely," the party said. (Massie thanked the party for the "shout-out.")

LPNH is controversial in even libertarian circles for what it calls "fiery, but mostly peaceful" rhetoric, criticized by Oliver among many others. 

After a second assassination attempt on Trump, it mused in a post that X apparently took down as a violation of its terms: "Anyone who murders Kamala Harris would be an American hero." The FBI visited LPNH's former Senate nominee, Jeremy Kauffman, soon after to talk about "a post that was made."

The party followed up with an open letter that claimed it was "merely acknowledging how some [lparty] members would react to" the "assassination of a tyrannical President."

"As Free Staters, another term for libertarians who live in New Hampshire, our mission is to create a state so radically free that both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris look like communists," LPNH wrote.

"The barbarians are at the gates," the statement reads. "We must make sure that New Hampshire continues to repel progressives, socialists, communists, and leftists of all stripes. New Hampshire being the only red state in a blue New England helps achieve that goal."

Oliver does not appear to have directly responded to the snub, but he posted video of former secretary of state Mike Pompeo telling a rally that Trump will "take down the ring of fire," meaning Iran, in a second administration. "Meanwhile, Libertarians reject the warfare state," Oliver wrote.