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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump "ALLEGEDLY" orchestrating a pardon for Maxwell in exchange for her saying he did nothing wrong
As Blanche was reportedly meeting with Maxwell on Thursday, Bondi's former border czar, Dave Aronberg, called the move "extraordinary."
"I can't overstate it, Brianna. It's as if the number two executive at CNN was conducting this interview with me instead of you," he told CNN's Brianna Keilar. "Like, what? It never happens. Also, he's not going to be knowledgeable about this case like the line prosecutors who actually handled her case. Like, Maurene Comey, but she was fired."
"But there are others who could do this, which makes me believe this is a lot about perhaps some politics involved, like maybe to protect the president, to get a deal with Ghislaine Maxwell that she would get some immunity now and maybe a hidden pardon in the future, some sort of implication that she would be pardoned in the future if she comes out and says that the president was exonerated, not involved in any criminal activity," he explained.
"And Trump doesn't want to be anywhere near this smoke. That's why he's sending his trusted former defense lawyer, the number two person of the Department of Justice, to go see Ghislaine Maxwell herself," he added.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-maxwell-hidden-pardon/
Raven123
(7,894 posts)Not that she should be pardoned at all.
gab13by13
(32,761 posts)It will never happen
allegorical oracle
(6,584 posts)be willing to negotiate. That conversation is in, as some say, "the vault."
Baitball Blogger
(52,714 posts)Presidents shouldnt be allowed to pardon convicts who have the goods on them.
fujiyamasan
(2,025 posts)That the founders didnt think it all the way through.
Trumps abuses have shown that the constitution doesnt provide as many safe guards as we thought, but thats partly because we have a Supreme Court that has basically greenlit most of his actions (with no commentary or even reasoning), and a congress that gave up long ago on being a coequal branch of government.
JoseBalow
(9,739 posts)
Response to Miles Archer (Original post)
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Arazi
(8,887 posts)The deal is a full pardon and a private jet to the location of my choice or Rupert Murdoch will release more incriminating stuff every week until you agree.
And if Im killed, he will release something every week forever
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LetMyPeopleVote
(181,997 posts)
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