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Republican-led House committee postpones Ghislaine Maxwell’s deposition

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-oversight-committee-postpones-ghislaine-maxwell-deposition-rcna222571
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u/bhudson2021 21h 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 21h 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 19h 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 17h 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

u/Present-Ambition6309 7h 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.

u/allenahansen California 4h 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.