Rep Swalwell tweets that Trump just "dangled" a pardon for sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell

[Mrs. Overall]

Link to tweet

Rep. Eric Swalwell
@RepSwalwell
Pardon dangled

Betsy Woodruff Swan
@woodruffbets

Trump on Ghislaine Maxwell: "I just wish her well, frankly. I've met her numerous times over the years...I just wish her well, whatever it is"

[nolabear]

1. I knew he wouldn't get away with that one.

Blitzer is on it now too.

[MontanaMama]

2. He said it.

Disgusting.

[uponit7771]

3. K&R, Trump sends well wishes for sex traffickers but no sympathy for America during the plague

[dalton99a]

16. +1

[brush]

4. That means he knows she's got receipts, some with his name on them.

[roamer65]

5. Dump is a pedo.

Why would anyone be surprised at this?

[Hekate]

17. A man who lusts after his daughter didn't start with her and won't end with her...

From the looks of Ivanka, she compartmentalizes her mind pretty rigidly, but part of her probably always believed she was the only one treated like that.

Nah.

Guard your daughter, Vanky.

[HotTeaBag]

6. He's gotta keep her quiet.

Killing her outright won't work after the Epstein uh, suicide.

[Blue_true]

21. Yeah, they blew the script, now they are cornered.

By giving Maxwell a pardon, she gets effectively shut up, so big names she has the goods on escape, and the abused girls, who are now women and some mothers, get abused again.

[Volaris]

25. Not quite...acceptance of a pardon is an admission of guilt,

which means no 5th amendment rights. Which means she cant refuse to answer questions under oath without risking contempt and confinement.

[Blue_true]

28. Tell that to Roger Stone. He will see no consequences as long as Trump is in office.

Who is going to enforce the rule of law with Trump refusing to cooperate with investigations and withholding any information that he wants to.

[Volaris]

31. Roger Stone was not pardoned; His sentence was commuted

For exactly the above reason: now he can still plead the fifth.

[Blue_true]

37. Trump will find some way to pardon her. Rule of Law means nothing to him, and if you still

think that it does, I don’t know what to say. If she can incriminate him, Trump will find a way to free her in a way that she won’t talk, then he will ignore calls that he overstepped his authority. We are seeing his tendency over and over, I really don’t understand why you think that he will stay within traditional legal boundaries when he has something to gain by not doing so.

[Volaris]

39. No I completely agree with you on what his intentions are.

I wanted to try and convey the particulars of how he accomplished that re: Stone.

[John Fante]

7. Q'Anon and fuckheads like James Woods are going to have a hard time spinning this one.

[Upthevibe]

14. John Fante....That's EXACTLY

what I'm thinking..What to say now....AND..the anti-vaxxers.....tooo

[madaboutharry]

8. So gross.

He is such a pig. Maxwell has so much ugly information on people, including him. He is afraid of her.

[IcyPeas]

9. foursome, perhaps?

Link to tweet

[PufPuf23]

24. How did Trump meet Melania?

Was the meeting through Epstein / Maxwell?

[tblue37]

33. Melania looks stoned out of her mind in that picture. nt

[not_the_one]

36. It looks like the turd is LITERALLY holding her upright, by the waist...

probably coked out of her mind, topped off by a "relaxant"...

[Mike 03]

10. I'll just quietly drop this here...

Did Trump and Epstein Rape Two Underage Girls?
https://www.masstortnexus.com/News/5386/Did-Trump-and-Epstein-Rape-Two-Underage-Girls

[lunatica]

15. Jesus!

What pigs!

[soothsayer]

11. Dangled a pardon, or issued a threat? Could read it either way

However, I think it was just his clumsy inability to fake being a human.

[localroger]

12. Well it's a little more complicated for Ghislaine

If he pardons her she has to admit guilt and loses the right to plead the 5th, so the investigators can then ask her about anything and anybody under oath and if she fails to answer or lies, it's another felony. He can't commute her sentence until there is a trial and a sentence to commute, which first means Ghislaine will be in jail for a year waiting it out. She might be more inclined to cut a deal with the prosecutor than to wait that out. Roger had a lot invested in keeping quiet, but Ghislaine doesn't and she will have lots of opportunities to tune up and sing before Trump can do what he did for Roger.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

26. He'd have to combine a pardon with some plan to whisk her out of the country.

She has multiple citizenships so I don't know if that complicates things or simplifies them.

[Blue_true]

27. That isn't happening with Roger Stone, and Trump has shown that he will

withhold any information that he wants to from investigators, regardless of who they are. He is even ignoring a Supreme Court ruling on DACA.

[localroger]

40. Stone was granted bail

He was out of jail for the whole trial process and Trump commuted his sentence just before he would have had to report to jail. Ghislaine is in jail and the judge has made it clear she's going to stay there until her trial, which will be at least a year from now. There's nothing Trump can do about that and I can't see her putting up with it if she can cut a deal with someone else.

[Blue_true]

41. You may be right. It is just that Trump has zero respect for the rule of law and precedents. nt

[localroger]

43. This is true but only applies to things Trump can control

And while Trump has proven willing and able to trash many institutions, some remain independent. Roger Stone proclaimed loyalty to Trump, and Trump learned with Joe Arpaio that there is a down side to a pardon, which is why he commuted Roger's sentence instead -- better to be a felon than be compelled to testify, after all. That he did it that way suggests that Stone could have been compelled to testify if pardoned and that this was worth worrying about. Ghislaine has not proclaimed loyalty to anybody except Epstein and probably has a lot more Epstein dirt to make public than Stone ever dreamed of.

The way prosecutions work is that a witness can get off lightly if they produce a bigger fish, but with Epstein's death Maxwell is now the biggest fish herself in the whole Epstein network. The only way she can buy her way out is to offer up something even bigger, or to threaten the right people with a willingness to do so.

[Efilroft Sul]

13. "If you don't say anything, I'll take care of you. Otherwise, if you do, I'll have you killed."

[Grasswire2]

18. which reporter asked him about Maxwell?

Was it a planted question??

[bullwinkle428]

19. Um, is he admitting that he and Epstein were tighter than a cat's ass?

[malaise]

20. Was Epstein her secret husband?

Very curious

[kentuck]

22. That's his code talk.

For sure!

Also, that question was set up, would be my opinion. Nobody else asked about Ghislaine Maxwell?

[malaise]

23. On Prime Time News now coming up after commercials

ABC

[Yavin4]

29. Maxwell probably has a copy of Melania's invoice. n/t

[skip fox]

30. Was the question asked by Steven Nelson of the NY Post a set-up??

It was the only question not on the virus, our response to it, or Trump's elect-ability due to it.

And I think is was the only follow-up question asked.

[kentuck]

35. Excellent point!

Someone should ask the reporter a question.

[tableturner]

32. Can't kill her. She has thumb drives of Epstein's blackmail material to be released if she's killed.

You know that she has associates who have the evidence and who have been instructed to release it if she's killed. And....she's made sure that we, including Trump, et al, know it. Trump most likely HAS to pardon her after the election. A storm of criticism is not nearly as bad as being charged with child sex crimes.

[Cha]

34. I'm sure you do, trump.. you fucking perverted ASSFACE.

[UTUSN]

38. K&R

[Blue Owl]

42. Not much of a dangle when you're talking about little Donny

n/t