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Beth's avatar

If she's pardoned, I'm sure the next thing to come will be the American taxpayers, via Trump, giving her a bunch of money just like he did for Ashley Babbit's family.

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Uriah heep's avatar

Anyone who didn't see MAGA openly allying itself with a child rapist and sex trafficker after what we've seen the past 10 years is willfully ignorant.

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Colette Clarke Torres's avatar

Maxwell was a participant in the rapes according to multiple of the girls. Maxwell isn't just some Park Avenue Madame. She's the worst of the worst and a liar

If MAGA takes her side they never cared about children.

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Jennifer Phillips's avatar

Why aren't they speaking to victims? And among the victims of the pedophiles if GM gets a more leniant deal are the jurors who gave her the chance to defend herself, listened to the evidence and witnesses and convicted her. Perhaps some of them may have something to say about this attempt to rewrite history. The trial was the time for any plea deals and cooperation, not now.

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Bruce's science says's avatar

I'm surprised that Jewish space lazers have not yet been implicated in a plot to smear trump ln this week of grasping at anything to distract us, or did I miss something?

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Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

Let me get this straight.

The “save the children” crowd is now soft-launching a rebrand for Ghislaine Maxwell? The same folks who called Tom Hanks a trafficker because he posted too many typewriters are now out here testing the waters for a cooperation deal with Epstein’s recruiter?

We’ve officially reached the part of the cult spiral where the snake swallows its own crimes and calls it “national security.”

This isn’t politics—it’s a devotional contortion. The golden calf has herpes and they’re trying to cast it as a misunderstood healer.

Here’s the truth: if Ghislaine Maxwell gives names, it’s over. If she doesn’t, they’ll try to canonize her as Saint Ghislaine of the Weaponized False Flag. Either way, MAGA’s not fighting trafficking—they’re curating the narrative.

And somewhere, in the shadows of their own hypocrisy, the children still wait to be believed.

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Robert J Danolfo's avatar

If Trumpers are willing to side with a convicted sex trafficking, child molesting degenerate for Trump, then it's Katie bar the door time.

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Paula Messier's avatar

This is why this country is in such a friggin mess: these people can be manipulated to believe anything their dear leader wants them to believe. Their bloodlust for libs, Dems, "progressives", anyone who is not them - is so intense they'll talk a dog off a meat wagon to get where Trump wants them to be. Pathetic. Dangerous. Sociopathic. And we're only 6 months into this admin. WTF are we going to do?

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Jackie Banks's avatar

Uh, wasn’t she indicted by the first trump administration? So does this mean that it was trump world that “falsely” victimized her?

But if you can rationalize a president trump, you can rationalize anything!!!!

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john king (MY HUMBLE OPINION)'s avatar

Cult members are going to swallow the cult propaganda. They are hook, line, and sinker suckers. Of course Maxwell will "illuminate" whatever facts Trump and his corrupt DOJ tell her are the chosen narrative. Any list of perpetrators will be edited by Department of Injustice traitors. The only names that come out will be anyone associated with Democrats. There may be a few deceased persons included, just for good measure. (Will South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone suddenly find themselves AI'd into the files?) Odds are any list produced by Maxwell will echo Trump's paranoid enemy list. Will he add Rupert Murdoch's name, in efforts to do damage control?

I'm more focussed on what Murdoch releases next. I don't believe he will back off on the coup to remove the Pedophile in Chief. Not because Murdoch has any functioning moral compass, but because he's realized that Vance is the Dark Enlightenment ringer brought up from the minor leagues by coach Peter Thiel. Palantir's surveillance state ambitions are much too lofty to be hindered by the senile, no longer useful idiot Trump.

Can somebody please organize the people to strike, before we are all required to salute the self proclaimed antichrist, Heil Thiel!

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Catherine Carroll's avatar

I have been worried about this, but no one is talking about it - until Will Sommer. Just reporting as if it is business as usual. Thump and associates are not interviewing Ghislaine Maxwell, because they "want to find out the truth" or something bizarre like that. They are looking for wiggle room, and this is a drastic, desperate measure to find it. We'll know what happened in that "deposition" when her sentence has been reduced and she is set free to walk around with an ankle-bracelet for the next 10 years. This takes the cake: going to the sex trafficker to manufacture your own innocence from association with Epstein and, let's face it guys, probably plenty of sex with underage girls. Hey Charlie Kirk, believe us when we say, Ghislaine Maxwell wants to get out of prison. Got that? When she's pardoned, will that raise a furor? Well, probably not. 1600 violent January 6th criminals pardoned and not a peep. After all, what's a little sex trafficking? A new trap door opens for these guys every time.

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Robyn Boyer's avatar

Every dip into the MAGA/Qanon world makes me crazy. How can they twist themselves into pretzels, just to keep alive the fantasy that their boy is somehow guiltless in all of this--and lord knows, so many more snafus? I think the Dems need to keep pressing for release of the files, in their entirety sans victims' names and nasty video. The fact that a deputy attorney general is in Florida cutting deals with a convicted pedophile should be proof enough to the MAGAe that there is a blatant cover up going on. Hopefully, the less convinced of the MAGA podcast and media world will hold the line: Release the files. This is the best opportunity to date for the Dems to go on offense and stay there. Any wedge between Trump and his conspiracy-minded followers is a good thing. Let's make a mountain out of a big, fat molehill.

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Rudyard Kipling's avatar

Whether or not information from Maxwell is revealing depends on who does the questioning. If all of this is the hands of Republicans and probably Trump lawyers, then any information that comes out of a “deposition “ is highly suspect. Anyone who has participated in child trafficking for sex is likely to “fudge the truth “. There could be much to gain from implicating certain people, as well as much to gain for not naming certain people. Yes, what Sabrina said.

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Carol Flint's avatar

She has choices. Does she want to be 'suicided'? Does she want a pardon? Or does she want to do the right thing and tell the truth?

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Catherine Carroll's avatar

Good comment, especially the bit about being "suicided." But she has little motivation to tell the truth. She wants out of jail and if this is her ticket, she is going to work it. Anyone, who groomed young girls for Jeffrey and Donald has some tricks up her sleeve. And, we know that Trump and associates have tricks up their sleeves. The best we can hope for is this whole nasty thing blows up in their faces. Bulwark and Dem politicians: this is not a time to be shy or demure.

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Chris Malloy's avatar

I have to assume this will go on the same arc as Jan 6 and we’re months away from Maxwell being a blighted hero of the right.

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Chris Klots's avatar

Yikes, MAGA! Your overlords (Trump, Bondi, Blanche, Patel) are going to cut a deal with the Pedophile Queen! I know you decided that it was ok to pardon the gangs (Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, etc.) who attacked and murdered Capitol Police officers...but... this moral compromise?

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Amabel Kylee Síorghlas's avatar

There is no moral compass anymore. I mean, we have people crammed in cages in a swamp getting their drinking water from a toilet set-up, being refused medical care, or a Bible to read. An 80-year-old man sent out of our country after living here 40 years. Farm and restaurant workers yanked out of their lives and thrown in closed-door private facilities or whisked off to who knows where. Meanwhile their children (and maybe their pets??) left behind without their caregiver. A superintendent of schools here in Vermont was just detained while returning to the US from visiting his family in Nicaragua. They separated him from his husband, and CBP told him they didn't believe he was a superintendent. They finally let him go after four hours but took his Global Traveler card with no explanation. And then there are all the children and people of Gaza, starving and getting sniped while trying to get food. Even the volunteer medical personnel are starving. While the US coddles Netanyahu. It's awful. Makes me sick to my stomach every single day. So many people seem to have seriously lost their way. Yet somehow have convinced themselves of righteousness.

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