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!
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Yes, I hope so. It just caught me off guard.
He jiu-jitsued them by tricking them into demanding their release.
Different districts
Bu there is no meaningful counter to this tactic.
Evidence isn’t the point here...the LIST OF NAMES is all that matters....
Do you even understand what happened with that vote? Higgins tried to defeat it. He lost
I would say likelihood that he was involved during sweetheart deal is nil although his area did cover financial crimes
Trump just made a problematic Ghislaine Maxwell situation look even worse July 26, 2025
Analysis by Aaron Blake.
"While taking questions on his way to Scotland, Trump repeatedly held open the possibility of pardoning Maxwell for her crimes.Well, I don’t want to talk about that,” Trump said initially.When pressed, he said, “It’s something I haven’t thought about,” while conspicuously adding, “I’m allowed to do it.”This wouldn’t be the first time Trump has appeared to dangle a pardon over someone providing evidence that could impact him personally and politically. (In this case, he has demonstrated past personal ties to Epstein, and his administration is scrambling to clean up its botched handling of the Epstein files after previously promising to release them.)"
they wanted to get bondi’s name in there
Bad writing so they could take a swipe at Bondi - got it.
But she’s not the only witness on earth. There are the children now adults, island staff, the pilots and maintenance workers. He must also have had accountants who handled the money and bank transactions.
Or sitting in boxes in Biden’s garage.
A commutation rather than a pardon.
Gets her out of jail, on parole, but still a tried and convicted trafficker.
A commutation rather than a pardon.
Gets her out of jail, on parole, but still a tried and convicted trafficker.
The same article word for word as the post several threads above by “Covid & Coffee 2025”.
Who copied whom?
Yes, they now say there was nothing to the entire Epstein thing. Much ado about nothing. Why are we still talking about it, move on. Yet, Queen Elizabeth had her MI6 to check things out before forking over millions to keep her favorite son safe. You don’t do that if it is a nothing burger.
Yes, if elite sickos really will be tried fairly and get tossed in prison. Otherwise, no.
With how he couldn’t keep his hands of young girls, I would not be at all surprised if Creepy Joe Biden was an Epstein client.
It would be hilarious if the whole Trump-Musk fallout was as staged as a WWE fight.
Imagine if they planned the public spat so Musk could save his businesses and President Trump could get the media to scream for everything Epstein to be publicly revealed.
This from a media that had almost no interest in Epstein for years, for some strange reason.
Now imagine President Trump telling the media to be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it.
Well, maybe that explanation is too convenient to have any basis in reality. But it has played out that way so far.
Personally, I think the deeper, darker secrets that Epstein and Maxwell represent are too big to be controlled.
As crazy as it sounds, I believe they are a tiny glimpse into a system in which non-human or not-fully-human entities run the world. The invisible hand. Epstein was a billionaire, or that was his front. He was a mover and shaker. But no one seems to know what business he was in, how he made his money, and they don’t care. I think he was a pawn in the cult of Baal that goes back thousands of years.
Or maybe that’s just a story the elites invented to control people like Epstein and Maxwell. Either way, I don’t think that element will become public. But maybe at least people like Bill Gates, Barack Obama, the Bidens, and the Clintons will be held accountable. Just maybe. But I’m not holding my breath.
Actually, the abused/trafficked underage women (assuming they are still alive) would make the best witnesses. From what I have read well over 100 have received money from what remained of the Epstein estate that was part of a fund set up by the courts to compensate for abused women of Epstein.
Oh, by the way, does “over 100” ring a bell based on the questions Ghislaine Maxwell was specifically asked about names?
The attorney interviewing Maxwell might not have been trying to get to the “client list” like the MSM speculates, it might have been to get a potential list of witnesses. If so, that should scare a lot of people to their very core. And yes some of them are Republicans and some of them are captains of industry that donate huge amounts of money to political candidates.
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