Posted on 07/26/2025 7:20:19 AM PDT by Starman417
Nobody saw this coming. I mean nobody. Yesterday, the Times ran another electrifying story headlined, “After Ghislaine Maxwell Interview, Concerns Mount Over Possibility of a Trump Pardon.” Pardon concerns mount! In the passive voice! By themselves!
Yesterday, in the warm, cozy, Sunshine State climate, “Todd Blanche, Attorney General Pam Bondi’s top deputy, concluded a second extraordinary day of interviews with Ms. Maxwell,” the article explained.
In other words, after years of Biden Administration stonewalling (and file padding), Ghislaine Maxwell got a two-day DOJ interview faster than Little Caesars could deliver a jailhouse pizza. And not just any random DOJ interviewer, either. They didn’t send some junior prosecutor with a legal pad who used to work for Maurene Comey.
They sent Trump’s former personal defense attorney turned Deputy Attorney General— the DOJ’s second in command.
Comparing it to a deposition, two days of DOJ interviews requires at least four days of prep time. In other words, DOJ’s number two cleared his calender for this. It wasn’t an interview; it was a mission.
Democrats, who ten minutes ago were pounding podiums demanding full transparency of the carefully curated Biden FBI files, were shocked to discover that Trump has another untainted source of information— Ghislaine Maxwell, chilling in a Florida prison like a long-forgotten, sealed box in the bottom of the evidence locker.
Now Democrats are suddenly sweating like an OnlyFans producer in church.
“The Blanche-Maxwell discussion,” the Times soberly reported, “has stoked concerns from critics of Mr. Trump that he may grant Ms. Maxwell a reprieve.” (Unnamed critics, of course.)
Ghislaine is unspoiled evidence. Astonishingly, no one had ever bothered interviewing her before. Not during the original Epstein investigation, not during her trial, not during five years of media blackout, strategic amnesia, and hot-potato footwork with the Epstein client list. And now, after she spilled the tea for ten hours over two days to Trump’s former lawyer turned top DOJ official, suddenly it’s a constitutional crisis.
Maxwell’s lawyer, David Markus, said DOJ officials had “asked about every possible thing imaginable.” Todd Blanche asked Maxwell about over 100 named individuals, and she dished the dirt. Markus said his client “answered every single question asked of her over the last day and a half.” Uh oh.
It was the most hilariously ironic twist yet. Late yesterday, reporters (obviously primed by someone) demanded to know whether Trump would pardon Maxwell in exchange for her testimony. President Trump, classically noncommital, replied, “I’m allowed to do it, but it’s something I haven’t thought about.”
Democrats are losing their minds. Senate minority leader Chuck “Chuckie” Schumer wildly speculated it was “some kind of a corrupt deal so that she can exonerate Donald Trump.” A lone protester (haha!) at the courthouse, Lisa Lloyd, 64, told rapt Times reporters, “This is wrong. Anyone who is concerned with justice should be appalled by this.”
The reporters didn’t get the pardon idea from Trump, Todd Blanche, or Maxwell’s lawyer. “We haven’t spoken to the president or anybody about a pardon just yet,” Markus said. “The president this morning said he had the power to do so. We hope he exercises that power.”
So let’s add this up. First, Democrats demand full transparency. Then, as soon as Trump sends DOJ’s second-in-command to find the facts, they started rioting like caged rhesus monkeys who just found out the banana shipment got rerouted to El Paso and incinerated. A pardon would be a travesty of justice!
Reporters sure have short memories. What about Biden’s pardons? That was what, less than 12 months ago? Remember that aging but remarkably spry human cockroach, Fauci? Or Biden’s entire family? Or the grotesque January 6th Committee— none of whom refused their pardons in principle?
Apart from Epstein himself —who is currently unavailable due to an unfortunate mishap of being suicided in a poorly run, high-security federal facility in New York— there is no better witness on Earth than Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell might even be better than Epstein.
As Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown has said many times, man-baby Epstein never did anything for himself. No. Maxwell did it for him.
Epstein was the front of the house. Maxwell was the kitchen, the accounting department, and the security system. She holds the map, the manifest, and —most importantly— the motive. This is exactly why the political class is panicking. Because it wasn’t just an airy, high-level interview. This was an authorized data download from the last living hard drive, carefully preserved in a Florida (not New York) prison.
The reason they are floating the pardon issue is simple: they’re desperately trying to discredit Ghislaine Maxwell before her testimony surfaces. It’s narrative preemption—classic information warfare. If she names someone inconvenient, say, Chuck Schumer, the response is already baked into the narrative custard: She only said that to get herself out of prison!
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
You are misconstruing what happened in that hearing. Watch the video clip. There is a terrific Grok roast blast on what happened
Higgins acted like the keystone cops. Tried to say a 1 vote no carried the vote.
Just watch the clip and look at what actually happened. Robert garcia hoodwinked them. Higgins tried to bluff using Biden....garcia called their bluff. Higgins outsmarted by Robert garcia . I hate that it was him that did it
Maxwell is certainly complicit in procuring/grooming underage girls. Is giving her a pardon worth the price of taking down the elite men who abused them?
“The rats are sweating.”
The art of the deal.
wy69
Look at the confusion over Biggs vote.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1948151863658078518
How does Higgins think the 1 no carries it . Knowing that the ayes have it he should have let it go. Instead, he forces Republicans to go on record. I am not even sure those Republicans voted aye the first time
Haven’t really followed the Epstein thing all that much since I figured there were a LOT of folks who wanted it to go away and we’d never get the truth. When Epstein got waxed in prison that just confirmed my suspicions. But now I read this article and I’m rather flabbergasted that no one thought to depose Maxwell! Rather unbelievable. If things play out as outlined in the article this will be quite interesting, and enjoyable as well!
Yes, no question.
‘Justice Cometh
And That, Quickly.’
Suddenly the left is concerned about pardons?! WHat a surprise.
There is no more hypocritical group of people on this planet than leftists.
They are the personification of the word.
+1 You nailed it.
I’m just going to sit back and enjoy the show...
This is also my point of view. Sure, it’s nice to see some powerful people exposed and possibly prosecuted for these despicable acts. But we should not forget Maxwell was the person who recruited these girls to be abused. Ratting out the abusers might seem redemptive, but she should not be let off the hook for her role.
Ghislaine Maxwell is no dummy. She’s kept her head down and her mouth shut knowing full well that what she has - and I don’t mean just in her head - is invaluable. She’s been doing her time while waiting for the people `that fear her’ to shorten her sentence/pardon her.
She can read the tea leaves and now sees that her former customers will never ‘rescue’ her, never make good on their promises, She’s not getting any younger so it’s time to look for other options.
It’s becoming a new ball game. The (mostly) honest people are in charge and looking to clean house, no matter who ends up in the dustbin of history.
I’d be willing to bet that there’s a safe deposit box (maybe more) in some safe, secure country full of video and audio evidence under an assumed name paid by a numbered account with a kill switch held by trusted people with a phone number and message to open the box(es) that check her status daily.
Ghislaine’s life insurance is the stuff One Worlders nightmares are made of.
This is a very clumsy way of saying Todd Blance is the Deputy Attorney General. That means he is the 2nd highest official in DOJ and has his own statutory authorities including automatically acting as AG in the absence of the AG. Why can no one in the press write simple straightforward statements that don't obscure the crystal clear facts in a case. Small point but it's a disability in the entire journalistic field. Folks should go back and read HL Menken or Hemingway's press dispatches from Europe.
Bill Clinton, Larry Summers...
Time to buy more popcorn futures, this one is going to be fun to watch.
Now, after actually viewing the video vote.. now review the letter from Garcia . You are completely upended in your assessment.
Note the GOP tried to limit what would be revealed. If Bondi decided something wasn’t credible they wanted it withheld.
That is not transparency.
https://x.com/casssemyon/status/1948456321562374340?
“Obviously, the Democrats had some set up some trap for Trump with manufactured evidence against Trump combined with the destruction of evidence damaging to Democrats by Democrat operatives under the direction of Comey’s daughter while she controlled the documents.”
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Exactly! And now Team Trump has a mountain of evidence, directly from Maxwell, to expose the Democrat’s dirty scheme to manipulate the facts. Now Trump has the incontestable goods on them so not only will many Dems be exposed as clients of Epstein, but the icing on the cake will be revealing what Dem operatives tried to do to get Trump.
My suspicion, as well.
“I imagine the good evidence is already destroyed.”
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Probably right, but some evidence on very high profile targets may have been so valuable that it was not in Epstein’s possession, but rather held in secure repositories by his enablers/managers for timely use. You don’t store valuables in an outdoor shed. Just saying.
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