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Arazi

(8,887 posts)
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 09:57 AM Jul 2025

Rightwing media beginning a Ghislaine Maxwell rehabilitation campaign

Un-fucking-believable.

"She deserves to be out. And maybe she never deserved to be in there in the first place".

"She deserves to be out. And maybe she never deserved to be in there in the first place" www.mediamatters.org/greg-kelly/n...

Media Matters for America (@mmfa.bsky.social) 2025-07-24T13:46:25.672Z
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Ocelot II

(131,217 posts)
1. Hahahaha! Yeah, I don't think so.
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 09:59 AM
Jul 2025

She was Epstein's procurer for years, not his victim. No doubt there was some weird psychodynamic going on there, but she did what she did without coercion and she did it to hundreds of young girls.

sheshe2

(98,439 posts)
12. Procurer and player.
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 10:20 AM
Jul 2025

She actively took part in those sex partys "massages". and more. See Jeffery Epstein: Filthy Rich on Netflix.


https://www3.stage.netflix.com/title/80224905

underpants

(197,171 posts)
2. Prepping for Trump to make a deal for her release
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 10:00 AM
Jul 2025

She’s says what he wants and she gets at least less of a sentence

ariadne0614

(2,198 posts)
3. Antidote: last night's Lawrence O'D show,
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 10:02 AM
Jul 2025

. . .in which he focused, in excruciating detail, on the real victims.

Mike 03

(18,690 posts)
4. Greg Kelly certainly has been behaving strangely lately
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 10:02 AM
Jul 2025

Newsmax star defends Alex Acosta’s sweetheart plea deal for Epstein — but ignores the network’s conflict of interest

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/newsmax-epstein-alex-acosta-board-b2794143.html

Newsmax's Greg Kelly: Trump “never promised anybody anything about Epstein”
Kelly: “President Trump never made this a focus of anything”

https://www.mediamatters.org/greg-kelly/newsmaxs-greg-kelly-trump-never-promised-anybody-anything-about-epstein

Kinda makes you wonder.

Irish_Dem

(82,312 posts)
6. She made young girls trust her, so she could pimp them out and abuse them
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 10:03 AM
Jul 2025

This woman was part of the rapes from start to finish.
She joined in with Epstein during the rapes.

After tricking the girls into trusting her.

She deserves life in prison.

sop

(19,288 posts)
10. Ghislaine Maxwell's prosecution and conviction:
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 10:17 AM
Jul 2025

'Ghislaine Maxwell Charged In Manhattan Federal Court For Conspiring With Jeffrey Epstein To Sexually Abuse Minors' (United States Attorney's Office, NY District, July, 2020)

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ghislaine-maxwell-charged-manhattan-federal-court-conspiring-jeffrey-epstein-sexually

'Ghislaine Maxwell: The harrowing testimony that brought her down' (BBC, December 2021)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59736227

'Ghislaine Maxwell doesn't testify, as her defense team rests its case' (NPR, December, 2021)

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/17/1064951639/ghislaine-maxwell-doesnt-testify-as-her-defense-team-rests-its-case

'Ghislaine Maxwell Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison For Conspiring With Jeffrey Epstein To Sexually Abuse Minors' (U.S. Attorney's Office, NY District, Tuesday, June 28, 2022)

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ghislaine-maxwell-sentenced-20-years-prison-conspiring-jeffrey-epstein-sexually-abuse

EarlG

(23,709 posts)
11. Right-wingers going to bat for a sexual predator? You don't say!
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 10:20 AM
Jul 2025

Just as a reminder, Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted on five felony counts by a jury of her peers:

* One count of sex trafficking of a minor
* One count of transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity
* Three counts of conspiracy to commit choate felonies


Meanwhile, according to Wikipedia, "Maxwell faces a second criminal trial for perjury on two charges that she lied under oath during a civil suit in 2015 about Epstein's abuse of underage girls."

Ghislaine Maxwell is a child sex trafficker who was found guilty and sentenced to twenty years in prison.

I guess in MAGA world, that makes you a "victim."

Loryn

(1,047 posts)
13. Not to be judgy, but she is a horrible human being.
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 10:24 AM
Jul 2025

She groomed and exploited vulnerable young girls, then turned around and called them "trash".

peggysue2

(12,590 posts)
14. Which means they're expecting her . . .
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 10:29 AM
Jul 2025

To flip in Trump's direction, exonerate him of any sexual deviancy during the upcoming interviews for the promise of a presidential pardon.

When the Administration talks about transparency? This is what it entails:

Criming in broad daylight.

Arazi

(8,887 posts)
16. Rightwing media are masters of disinformation
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 11:13 AM
Jul 2025

I wouldn’t put it past them to begin a coordinated reputation washing campaign in preparation for her pardon.

They’ve done it for Traitor. Why not Maxwell?

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