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...
Maxwell has done 5+ years. Trump could commute to time served or something less than the 20.
BTW with good behavior her earliest possible release date is early 2034.
Trump has lots of options with her. Her life is probably in danger daily. He could have her transferred to a Club Fed facility and/or a federal halfway house, or even home confinement citing the threat to her, especially now after she is spilling the “beans”.
The deal Epstein made in 2008 to escape further prosecution may be adjudged to apply to her, it hasn’t been up to SCOTUS yet. If it applies, she walks free.
Commutation: This reduces the severity of a sentence without overturning the conviction itself. It essentially modifies the sentence to a lesser form, potentially leading to an earlier release from prison or changing a death sentence to life imprisonment.
Maxwell has done 5+ years. (Arrested July 2, 2020)
Trump could commute to time served or something less than the 20.
BTW with good behavior her earliest possible release date is early 2034.
Trump has lots of options with her. Her life is probably in danger daily. He could have her transferred to a Club Fed facility and/or a federal halfway house, or even home confinement citing the threat to her, especially now after she is spilling the “beans”.
The deal Epstein made in 2008 to escape further prosecution may be adjudged to apply to her, it hasn’t been up to SCOTUS yet. If it applies, she walks free.
Commutation: This reduces the severity of a sentence without overturning the conviction itself. It essentially modifies the sentence to a lesser form, potentially leading to an earlier release from prison or changing a death sentence to life imprisonment.
The media has been trying to convert what is essentially a horndog Democrat scandal headlined by s former Dem President, you know who, who was the most frequent flier 28 flights to Pedo Island to a Republican horndog and Trump scandal. Maxwell was not about to be granted limited immunity like she was unless asst AG already knew in advance from a proffer by her attorney what she was going to reveal. I didn’t fall off the turnip truck. He knows she was going to reinforce this as a Dem scandal and that Trump, although once knowing Epstein, was not involved in the horndog escapades. Once this is out, this will now disappear from the whoring media
considering how Democrats went after Trump with everything they had, seeking to flip his lawyers and his lawyer’s lawyers against him, considering Mueller and Jack Smith and Alvin Bragg, Fanny Willis, Letitia James, etc.......when Biden was president for four years, why did Democrats not consider flipping Ghislaine Maxwell, by bribing her with some reward for testimony or some evidence against Trump-—if such evidence exists??????
and if Russians wanted Trump to win, why did they hold back on releasing intelligence about Hillary’s health, but allowed the Steele dossier to be created from Russian sources and foreign spies they knew about?
Well written article.
I love reading Childers’ column, Coffee & CoVid. His writing style is entertaining and educational. I always learn something.
The visual imagery is hilarious.
Childers has the by line on FA.
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Yeah, I saw that. Maybe he gave his permission.
I’m wishing every child diddling scum get it....
It would have been even better if Trump at the end made a slight pause and then said “until now.”
Maxwell is also facing a perjury trial, two counts @ up to 5 years apiece.
Blanche worked in the SDFL? Really? Souce?
"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.'"
easily dismissed “in the interest of justice”
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!
You’d complain if you were hung with a new rope.
If you look at the byline of the post on Flopping Acres, you will see that it says posted by Jeff Childers.
I take that to mean Childers posted his own work on Flopping Acres.
Thank you.
I have no idea what she's got cooked up now, but I doubt there is much to learn.
Dems thought they had it made with President Trump's name floating around and enough simpletons imbued with the fake Trump/Epstein/sex perversion notion that they could jabber on about it like Schmidt about Russia-gate even though the case was closed.
But now it isn't. Lord, this is hairy. Remember, Maxwell turned on Epstein years ago after he didn't pay her lawyers, and finding her new boyfriends, one of whom she married.
Just her Wiki page is boggling. She's a shyster, and then she has lawyers, who don't necessarily have "the truth" as their mission.
I wanted this issue to go away, but it sure is interesting ...
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