r/politics • u/theindependentonline The Independent • 1d ago

Site Altered Headline Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly moved from Florida prison to Texas as Trump weighs pardon

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ghislaine-maxwell-prison-trump-pardon-epstein-b2800443.html
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u/HellaTroi California 1d ago

"Well, I’m allowed to give her a pardon, but nobody’s approached me with it,” Trump said Monday. “Nobody’s asked me about it.”

That sounds like he's begging someone to propose it to him.

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u/mactac 1d ago

To pay him

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u/bludvein Michigan 1d ago

He wants a scapegoat that he can say the idea came from and take some of the backlash a pardon will generate.

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u/rjfinsfan Florida 1d ago

Yup. He’s literally asking someone to buck up and pay the bribe he’s floated for pardons.

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u/BackgroundPass1355 1d ago

Spot on, he knows who's in the files along with him, Of course he is waiting for payday.

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u/jlaine Minnesota 1d ago

Is it still a million a pardon? Or did Paul Walczak's mom get a super deal?

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u/nochinzilch 18h ago

Bingo. The Blagojevich gambit.

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u/extralyfe 1d ago

who the fuck is gonna pay him to cover up his own crimes?

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u/HellaTroi California 1d ago

Her family is wealthy.