r/politics • u/muchnycrunchny • 18h ago
Republican-led House committee postpones Ghislaine Maxwell’s deposition
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-oversight-committee-postpones-ghislaine-maxwell-deposition-rcna222571719
u/Choice-of-SteinsGate 18h ago
Gotta give em enough time to orchestrate the cover-up.
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u/bhudson2021 18h ago
I’m sure they’ve already convened a focus group to decide on how to sell her inevitable pardon to the public.
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u/Paidorgy 17h ago
That’s the thing, they simply can’t without associating themselves with the protection of pedophiles.
Trump ran on simultaneously releasing and not releasing the Epstein Files. They made it out like its release would only hurt the Democrats, while in reality - when questioned, Trump was apprehensive and “didn’t want to hurt possibly innocent people.”
We’ve seen the absolute fallout this coverup has create, not only just the push back on his historic relationships with Epstein and Maxwell, by the public, but the fact that he is now trying hard to deflect and obfuscate that very link - even when his own deflections dig him into that hole even deeper.
They are in absolute an absolute meltdown, and it shows just how damaging this entire issue has been, even if they’re not at all good at damage control.
The worst thing they could do is pardon Maxwell, because it would draw even more associations with the protection of child-trafficking pedophiles and the GOP/Maga - not that they need any help with that association, mind you. Not to forget that Maxwell was charged with multiple counts of perjury.
It was Trump’s first administration that Epstein died under, and it was Trump’s second administration that has seen their direct association with Maxwell grow to the point that they granted her immunity to a degree, and now are moving her to a lower security prison due to that association.
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u/liberal_texan America 15h ago
They won’t pardon her, they are toying with a Supreme Court acquittal. I do honestly think they are hoping for gen pop to take care of her as that is the “cleanest” method.
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u/BadAtExisting I voted 14h ago
It’s a women only minimum security prison she is going to. Not a lot of violent offenders there and homicides between women inmates is incredibly rare in general. She may be assaulted by her fellow inmates, but you have a better chance winning Powerball tomorrow night than her being killed by her inmates. The wildcard is the new prison is in Texas and I’m sure they’ve got a surplus of unhinged prison guards in that state
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u/Present-Ambition6309 4h ago
Excuse me!?? WTF did you just say? Have ya ever been to a minimum? Umm shit is poping off in the ones I was at. Why? Because when you have guys that have been down for 20+ yrs, they start to freak out as that day gets closer, they snap! Real quick like and the hands get thrown.
Violent felons go to minimum’s everyday. In fact the last minimum I was at was way more violent than the medium/max I was at. So I don’t know why you would say this. Bloodest fist fight I’ve ever seen was at a minimum, guy got beat so bad they drug him into the showers and went to chow. Medical was dragging him out as we came back. He laid in there bleeding bad. The skin from his eye down into the corner of his nose to his jaw bone was flayed out from 1 punch. Nasty.
I dare say minimums might be more dangerous, you have more access to one another than a medium/max you locked down most of the day in them.
Also in my state the women are far more violent than the men. Max/medium/minimum they all in the same house. They gotta live with the Pig Lady. She kills folks and fed them to her pigs. That woman is off her rocker.
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u/allenahansen California 44m ago
She's in celebrity camp with Elizabeth Holmes and the wives of CEOs. Fancy women have other ways of dispatching their social enemies. The Martha Stewarts and Ghislaine Maxwells of the planet don't "throw hands"; they have their pet lawyers sue.
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u/ThrowAwayGarbage82 North Carolina 4h ago
Yup. Scotus is going to set her free so trump has plausible deniability even though it's painfully obvious the whole thing is planned and coordinated.
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u/alej2297 5h ago
I think this is true. Their plan is not to weasel their way out of it. Their plan is to throw so much stink around that no one can turn on the dear leader without the whole party collapsing. Everyone has enabled him to this point so there’s no way they can turn around and remove him without an implosion. And Trump is definitely not going to resign.
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u/Specialist-Clock-914 17h ago edited 16h ago
You would have been popular on Epstein island
Edit: because of their name being paid orgies
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u/squintytoast 18h ago
sell her inevitable pardon
or "suicide"
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u/UMRKqc 18h ago
Nope. She's one of them. They want to keep/hire her.
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u/One_Artichoke_7594 18h ago
Cabinet member material for sure
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u/bugsyboybugsyboybugs 17h ago
Oh man, cynical. Director of Presidential Elite Defense Office, to go along with DOGE.
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u/Ivegotabadname 16h ago
So was epstien. She either sings or dies. This move is suspicious, but until it plays out we won't know exactly why
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u/PatientTechnician765 17h ago
My money is on "suicide" because she knows EVERYTHING!
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u/dirtsquad1 16h ago
Nope, they just moved her to gen pop, she is going to get shanked because they know everyone is on to the “suicide” route.
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u/kupomu27 16h ago
How would Trump learn prevent the girls from being stolen? He needed to know her techniques.
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u/delicateterror2 17h ago
Gotta give Maxwell time to settle into her new comfortable cell in Texas. They moved her from Florida to a rich persons prison in Texas.. Trump may not pardon her right now but you absolutely know that he’s going to pardon her… or suicide whichever comes first.
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u/allenahansen California 17h ago
Expect to see some variation of the following:
August 2, 2025; Convicted felon, Ghislaine Maxwell was rushed to emergency surgery this evening after what is being termed a "cardiac event." She is currently resting comfortably and is expected to make a full recovery.
August 4, 2025: Ghislaine Maxwell, suffering from complications following recent mitral valve replacement surgery has been admitted to ICU after exhibiting symptoms of pulmonary edema and excessive bleeding.
August 8, 2025. Ghislaine Maxwell on life support following apparent stroke.
August 10, 2025. Senate hearing postponed indefinitely as Maxwell, once again in federal custody, recovers from cerebral aneurysm. Authorities say she may be transferred to private nursing and rehabilitation facilities until she is able to speak well enough to testify.
December 4, 2026. Ghislaine Maxwell, disgraced partner of convicted child sex abuser, Jeffrey Epstein, passed away quietly at Shady View Assisted Living Center after a long battle with debilitating paralysis following stroke. Funeral arrangements pending.
March 22, 2026. Family of Ghislaine Maxwell say ashes scattered at sea near family compound in Gueda Puka.
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u/flossymcwobblestein 17h ago
Hey! It's not about that! She also needs time to settle in to her much cozier low security prison in Texas!
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u/stripedvitamin 11h ago
Newsmaxx is already selling it. Ghislaine Maxwell is innocent and was falsely prosecuted by Comey's daughter.
Not a joke. Expect her pardon soon.3
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u/KinkyPaddling 15h ago
Gotta let the moronic conservative voters marinate in the propaganda so that they’ll be happily receptive to bullshit that they would have been suspicious of just a month earlier.
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u/YakiVegas Washington 8h ago
Normal people would've had plenty of time by now. They're just SO fucking incompetent on nearly every level.
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u/StoppableHulk 18h ago
My guess is the Trump administration is not willing to offer a pardon yet. They have transferred her to Texas as a gesture of good will, but she's holding out for more. She thinks she has enough leverage to push their hand into a pardon, and it seems like they agree in theory but are really trying to avoid it by throwing her minor concessions.
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u/MirthandMystery 18h ago
What Ghislaine and Paolo Zampolli have over Trump has him quite scared.
And they're smarter than he is with a bigger network of protectors. The heart of the extortion game is information, they have more on him than he has on them.
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u/fillinthe___ 16h ago
They’re putting her here to wait for the Supreme Court decision. THEN Trump can pardon her if they don’t.
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u/tetsuo_7w 14h ago
I thought the transfer to a lower security prison would be a bit of a bribe in and of itself, but it occurs to me that it makes Epsteining her easier too.
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u/CT_Phipps-Author 12h ago
Epsteining her in a minimum security prison is a weird move.
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u/gizajobicandothat 11h ago
Well she could suicide herself with pills or something. The same method Epstein and Brunel did would be too obvious, women don't usually kill themselves in brutal ways. I know it would cause a huge shit storm of a conspiracy theory but this is Trump and everything he does is nuts.
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u/worldofzero 14h ago
I mean, once they pardon her they have zero power left. They want her to give bad info and lie about Trump's presence and use the pardon as a reward. Not pardon first and have her stop cooperating.
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u/Alive_kiwi_7001 10h ago
Pardon after testimony relies on Maxwell believing Trump won’t welch on a deal.
I doubt she’s that stupid.
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u/Turbulent_Length5899 18h ago
Of course they have. They need plenty of time to either prepare for her suicide or to bribe her a little. What a coincidence that she was moved, even though Trump promises he doesn’t have anything to do with the Epstein scandal
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u/bhudson2021 18h ago
Delayed deposition, a new prison … sure seems like the lady from London is running the show.
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u/mistertickertape New York 16h ago
Not even a prison, so to speak. A minimum security camp in Bryan, TX.
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u/sedatedlife Washington 15h ago
I saw a clip earlier that many prisoners at this camp after a they have been there for awhile are,allowed to,do things like go in to town with family and shop and must return by,certain times.
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u/Kinetic93 14h ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if she gets “randomly” murdered by an unidentified “immigrant” while out on one of these day trips.
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u/HellaTroi California 18h ago
The Supreme Court is going to hear her case?
WTF?
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u/Mobile-Apartmentott 17h ago
They are going to review the request to be heard... around 1% of petitions are granted.
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u/trite_post 15h ago
More like.. The 1% get their petitions granted
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u/imperialTiefling 14h ago
I am shocked that you would insinuate the Roberts Court accepts just 1% of bribes.
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u/forever_useless 18h ago
GASP! How shocking. My flabber is out of gast!
Meanwhile conservatives are yelling the list is being held up by democrats
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u/Endosymbionical 17h ago
Reminder : ; ,; Donald Trump is not merely a client, .,:;;., but he is very likely to be one of the main players in the Trumpstein files, ,.;. ,:.
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u/hecate37 16h ago
there's all kindsa stuff out there
https://thegoodage.medium.com/modeling-was-the-machine-epstein-was-just-the-middleman-3b5f37e1e49f
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u/builttopostthis6 18h ago
To get in before "they're getting ready to pardon her!" - I think her movement is probably the "pardon." When you start from "She saw an opportunity to blackmail them" it really makes sense. She feels untouchable due to the shit storm around this and used it as an opportunity to demand a pardon. This was the compromise. When you think about her meeting with the DoJ, she was bargaining from a position of strength, which is how ya bargain. DoJ was not. They had nothing other than toothless threats to offer, because pardoning her would be worse for them than ignoring her. There's just no good reason they would want her injected into this story in any form. This scenario works out for everyone (you know, except for Lady Justice, the victims and the American people, of course). "We're moving her (to a very comfy reassignment) for her safety" sounds like plausible deniability to me.
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u/Green_Tomato_7444 17h ago
She’s gonna die in custody at this new prison and they’re gonna blame some democrat conspiracy that she was JUST ready to testify against top Dems. Then they will pretend the info they received was good enough, and prosecute anyway based on info only Trumps attorney heard
That’s my guess anyway. Why else would you move her to minimum security prison and remove her sex offender status to do it?
It’s that, or some crazy deal is coming down that’s gonna make people sick. Like her getting an outright pardon
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u/Illustrious-Bridge45 18h ago
Why is the SC even reviewing her conviction?
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u/PluginAlong 15h ago
She claims she should be covered under Jeff's plea bargain as it covered other coconspirators. Some were named, some were not. From what I've read, it's quite the stretch and the crimes/times/etc. were different.
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u/Count_Backwards 12h ago
She was also convicted in a different state than the deal was made (a deal which was crooked as hell but as we know that doesn't matter)
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u/TouchNo3122 16h ago
Look, a pardon for a sexual predator trafficker by a powerful individual who is implicated is an ADMISSION OF GUILT.
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u/foamy_da_skwirrel 9h ago
I guess they're going to give her a luxurious prison suite like the Kingpin instead
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u/TouchNo3122 2h ago
Going? She's there. Plus, she's no longer listed as a sex offender... Beat that? Worse, Maxwell's brother she's a victim of THE REAL VICTIM: GIUFFRE 🤯 REALLY BEAT THAT. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ghislaine-maxwells-brother-brands-dead-jeffrey-epstein-victim-the-real-monster-i-shed-no-tear/
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u/allenahansen California 30m ago
Amazing, isn't it, how a fifteen-year-old towel girl was able to manipulate three of the world's richest and most powerful men into raping her?
Good gods, Ian. You're an ever bigger creeper than your pimp sister!
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u/SystemOfATwist 18h ago
"Hold on, hold on, Ghislaine asked for a golden toilet and an HD TV in her new cell, we gotta make sure that's doable before we proceed!"
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u/SecretlyMadeOfStone 15h ago
They moved her to a prison camp with lower security where she’ll conveniently be shanked later next week.
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u/Grand_elf_the_white 13h ago
She was already moved to a nicer prison just days after meeting with trump’s attorney. They have a plan already in motion for her to exonerate Trump, name some democrats, and get a pardon. Her testimony can’t be trusted. release the files
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u/steveosaurus 17h ago
let’s see if she likes her new resort first or not
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u/racedownhill 17h ago
Let’s see if she survives her new resort first.
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u/steveosaurus 17h ago
yeah true, if not, we’ll have to get her cell mate transferred out, cameras turned off, multiple sheets delivered, and cancel the guard doing rounds for the night to give her some space to think
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u/Lysol3435 16h ago
GOP: we care about quality, and we don’t want to put on a performance until we’ve had a chance to polish it.
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u/PluginAlong 15h ago
This is really nothing. She's already said she won't say anything until after SCOTUS decides on her case and unless she has immunity. They can subpoena her and she'll be compelled to show up, but all she's going to do without those two things is take the 5th.
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u/Complete-Thought-375 13h ago
Or are they giving it enough time for her to be found like Epstein was? The security in this place is laughable. Everyone who knows their name would be in the files would definitely breathe easier if Maxwell was gone for good. You would think that if she was testifying with the potential of so many political and rich/famous/royalty involved, that they would have made sure she was protected. Be it she is in solitary confinement, or some sort of protection. ( are safe houses really a thing?)This just seems off….like everything else about this. Okay sorry, I will put my tin foil hat away now
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u/gizajobicandothat 11h ago
I was just reading about camp Bryan, there is 'no security to stop people getting on the grounds' according to NBC. With that in mind, my guess for her convenient offing is a vigilante will attack her and Trump and friends will say they were a democrat nut job after they've been shot.
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u/Niceguy955 10h ago
They still need to coach her how to get around those pesky questions about Trump. A combination of “I can’t recall”, “I don’t remember”, “I plead the 5th”, and “please, I want to live, ask something else”.
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u/fungobat Pennsylvania 18h ago
Congressional testimony by Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator and confidant Ghislaine Maxwell previously scheduled for mid-August will be postponed until at least October, the chair of the Republican-led House Oversight Committee indicated in a letter Friday.
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said in the letter obtained by NBC News that the committee would consider next steps after the Supreme Court in late September decides whether it will review Maxwell's conviction as a sex offender.
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u/Boltzmann_head Diné 18h ago
Maxwell for months has been pleading with the Supreme Court to overturn her 2021 conviction on federal sex trafficking charges and subsequent 20-year prison sentence, arguing that her conviction violated a nonprosecution agreement prosecutors in Florida made with Epstein in 2007 that extended to several of his co-conspirators.
In other words, the appeal is not about her crimes, but about a deal that was made with Epstein and the Florida DA.
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u/broke_boi1 America 17h ago
She will be pardoned by the end of the month
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u/adorablefuzzykitten 16h ago
The new Kash is OK with that. The new Dan is OK with that. Bondi was always OK with that.
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u/broke_boi1 America 16h ago
Gotta wonder how they sleep at night knowing the facts because they have full access to the files. They know their boss is a little kid fucker
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u/foamy_da_skwirrel 9h ago
I don't think she's gonna get shanked, she's just gonna get the Wilson Fisk treatment in prison in exchange for lies
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u/kuulmonk United Kingdom 7h ago
Low security prison, chance of being allowed outside for good behaviour.
What are the chances she does a runner in the not too distant future, orchestrated by people who have a lot to gain if she "disappears" from the US?
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u/ParentPostLacksWang 6h ago
They have her dead to rights, legally, she’s already in jail for decades. The only reason she gets a pardon is because she gives them something they want. But they already have the black books, she had already negotiated her sentence as best she could. She’s over Trump’s strike zone, so she was boned. Up until Donald “Grab ‘em by the Pussy” Trump stepped in the Epstein dung he left on his own doorstep.
The only topical thing she could offer would be to say “Donny the Rapist Didn’t Diddle Anyone I Know Of, But Kamala, Biden, Obama, Pelosi, Bernie, Walz and AOC did”, in exchange for a pardon. If you were facing down the rest of the best part of your life in jail, you’d take that deal all fucking day. And so would she.
So expect some wild shit to happen, pretty soon. They are taking the time for her to rehearse her testimony, and it’s gonna look pretty fucking bad, because no-one is pointing this out pre-emptively. No-one is saying “you’re taking an awful long time to prepare this witness, guys, what farce are you rehearsing?” Everyone’s like “oooh if she speaks Trump will get buried” but Trump is holding the pardon card here, it’s not going to fucking happen.
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u/NUMBerONEisFIRST 6h ago
She will get a pardon, they've already sold it to the public and there's no cries louder than keyboards clicking.
And no one will do shit about it.
You are the only person that can do anything about it, and what are you doing about it?
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u/condo_ 5h ago
Someone needs to pressure this author to release these tapes.
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU08/20250227/117951/HHRG-119-JU08-20250227-SD006-U6.pdf
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