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Nothing will scream "I'm guilty" as loud as a pardon of Ghislane Maxwell. (Original Post) Sogo Aug 2025 OP
Everyone already knows he is a pedo rapist. Some still publicly deny, but we all KNOW. RockRaven Aug 2025 #1
He's dumb enough to do it, no doubt. Dave Bowman Aug 2025 #2
Who has his ear? Who can tell him No? underpants Aug 2025 #4
He's also as greedy for headlines to do it. Ping Tung Aug 2025 #8
This would be a disaster. Go ahead. Moving her kept the story alive. underpants Aug 2025 #3
And then what? MIButterfly Aug 2025 #5
Pardons TnDem Aug 2025 #6
Trump doesn't give a shit if everyone is screaming "you're guilty!" sop Aug 2025 #7
That's why I expect it will wait until after the midterms misanthrope Aug 2025 #9
Just refusing to take a pardon off the table Progressive dog Aug 2025 #10
Either he will pardon BigMin28 Aug 2025 #11
I think it's more likely he'll offer her a reduced sentence for after the election. Ping Tung Aug 2025 #12

RockRaven

(18,773 posts)
1. Everyone already knows he is a pedo rapist. Some still publicly deny, but we all KNOW.
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 02:43 PM
Aug 2025

What the pardon will do, in a quid pro quo for silence or lying denials, is protect/sustain/buttress the pedo rapist's ability to lie to himself about what everyone else knows/thinks.

MIButterfly

(2,170 posts)
5. And then what?
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 02:59 PM
Aug 2025

It's not as if he won't get away with it and everything else he's done forever. It's not as if his enablers and the MAGAts won't find some way to explain it all away or blame it on Biden or Obama or Clinton.

Sorry, but I'm in a cynical mood today. 😟

 

TnDem

(1,390 posts)
6. Pardons
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 03:02 PM
Aug 2025

If he does pardon Maxwell, (and it wouldn't surprise me if he does), does that then mean that all pardons by any President imply guilt of something?

sop

(17,583 posts)
7. Trump doesn't give a shit if everyone is screaming "you're guilty!"
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 03:04 PM
Aug 2025

Trump knows he will suffer zero consequences for issuing a pardon. All he wants is a declaration under oath from Ghislaine Maxwell so he can scream "I was exonerated!" In his defective brain that will put an end to it.

misanthrope

(9,390 posts)
9. That's why I expect it will wait until after the midterms
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 03:07 PM
Aug 2025

He moved her to Club Fed as a waiting area.

Progressive dog

(7,572 posts)
10. Just refusing to take a pardon off the table
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 03:15 PM
Aug 2025

is an ear splitting scream already. He's showing us wht he thinks she might know and talk about.

BigMin28

(1,824 posts)
11. Either he will pardon
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 03:17 PM
Aug 2025

her or the Supreme Court overturns her conviction. She will walk. My question is, will the child molester/predator be deported?

Ping Tung

(4,151 posts)
12. I think it's more likely he'll offer her a reduced sentence for after the election.
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 03:20 PM
Aug 2025

Or threaten her with more trials for more charges.

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