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Lance Khrome's avatar

The sudden DOJ/tRump interest in the Maxwell case and her 20-yr prison sentence is most troubling indeed. I mean, commutation, pardoning, or even a sentence reduction given to someone convicted of simply awful crimes involving underage girls, teenagers, and their male elite abusers and rapists is way beyond the pale, and could ONLY redound badly upon tRump.

What could Maxwell even offer to warrant any sentence modification? Name names not already on various Epstein "lists" known to the government? Prepare to testify FOR the government if statutory rape charges revived and levied against elite abusers?

Or, is all this just more "distraction" to keep the spotlight off the Orange Sleaze? Asking for a friend.

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Susan Linehan's avatar

Do we know of any evidence in either the trial or investigation of Maxwell that could reveal perjury in testimony on "behalf of" the government? How linked was her prosecution to the infamous Epstein files?

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Manqueman's avatar

Eh. I think I’m ready to characterize the federal government as a classic dictatorship. Bizarrely, the only way I can be proven wrong is if the 2028 POTUS thing proceeds as it should but we won’t know that for a couple of years.

And to be trendy, arresting Obama won’t incite much of anything blowback-wise.

So dictatorship.

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Michael's avatar

Sadly, I agree.

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Michael's avatar

Maybe I'm just stupid... Wait, OK I am stupid, but someone please tell me how release of these Epstein files is going to reveal anything damaging to the president? It's not like these papers or video or whatever are in a strongbox somewhere, guarded by armed Marines, 24/7. There's been ample time to edit redact or delete information in them damaging to Trump. Why should we expect any revelations? I guess my question is what physically are these "files", where are they located, who has custody of them?

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noeire's avatar

"learned helplessness" -- finally, someone credible pierces the heart of the beast. Other dynamics need to be added, beginning with the organized, heavily funded oligarch-theocrat drive to infantilize the public in US. They got what they paid for: people passively watching tv and then passively watching screens 24/7/265, and then.... 1 NL writer called out "complacency", a description that seems temperate and felicitous to your readers. No one thinks infants act with responsibility.

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Gregg Barak's avatar

As you correctly point out this Epstein scandal is really about a Trump coverup. As I argued yesterday in my commentary in Raw Story. In all likelihood there is far more damaging material than a birthday card, and, most likely Trump has known the contents in the files since the first time he was president and did not recently learn anything new that he already did not know.

Check it out:

https://www.newsbreak.com/raw-story-2096750/4127683141203-trump-s-rage-threatens-to-unearth-his-biggest-skeletons-opinion.

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Susan Linehan's avatar

Does DOJ attorney Desiree Leigh Grace have any recourse, any claim to wrongful firing? I've lot track of who can or cannot be fired from DOJ without cause.

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TCinLA's avatar

I don't know if you're aware of this David, but likely a majority of your readers no longer subscribe to the Nation's Finest Fishwrap or the Washington Pest. Your postings would improve if you would use alternate sources for the information. I know for a fact that Reuters covered every one the the stories attributed to the NYT or WaPo this month.

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Victoria Brown's avatar

Maxwell can earn her

pardon by lying that

Trump was never near

any "girl" under 18.

Blanche will coach her.

I guess people weren't

paying attention when

the republican CPAC

held their convention 2x

in Hungary, or when

Orban came and chatted

with republicans behind

closed doors, had chit

chat with Trump at Mar

a lardo, sent his

emissaries to have

another sit down, behind

closed doors with

republicans all leading

up to 2024 election.

Took me back to

republicans double

dealing with the 3rd

Reich and Hitler. Know

your history! If you don't

learn from it, you're

going to eventually

repeat it.

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