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Related: About this forumBreaking: Update on Ghislaine Maxwell Pardon - Brian Tyler Cohen
INTERVIEW: Former pardon attorney Liz Oyer on Trumps possible Maxwell pardon.
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Here are the key points from the video:
Ghislaine Maxwell is attempting to trade clemency for testimony that would exonerate Trump regarding Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking operation, which former pardon attorney Liz Oyer calls "unprecedented" and highly corrupt.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche personally interviewed Maxwell over two days in prison, after which she was transferred from a sex offender facility to a minimum-security camp in Texas - a move that required high-level DOJ approval.
DOJ officials Kash Patel and Todd Blanche claim no other co-conspirators exist in the Epstein case, despite evidence in the Epstein files showing at least six names and references to ten co-conspirators in previous prosecutions.
The lead prosecutor who convicted Maxwell, Maureen Comey, was fired in July 2025 just days before Blanche's prison visit, removing the most knowledgeable person about the evidence from the Justice Department.
Epstein trafficking victims have been denied meetings with Attorney General Pam Bondi and DOJ leadership, despite their legal right to participate in the justice process.
Presidential pardon power is constitutionally unfettered - only the president's conscience restricts their ability to grant pardons, even in cases involving child sex trafficking.
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Breaking: Update on Ghislaine Maxwell Pardon - Brian Tyler Cohen (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
8 hrs ago
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Well either she agrees to it or will be found with her head cut off and be declared a suicide.
Wonder Why
7 hrs ago
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Seriously? She's signaled a willingness to lie under oath in exchange for a pardon?
RVN VET71
6 hrs ago
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CincyDem
(7,347 posts)1. If he does, hang her around Republicans' necks a la Marc Rich. n/t
Wonder Why
(6,676 posts)2. Well either she agrees to it or will be found with her head cut off and be declared a suicide.
RVN VET71
(3,166 posts)3. Seriously? She's signaled a willingness to lie under oath in exchange for a pardon?
Fascinating. Trump is being given a Mafia-type deal: "free me or I'll squeal."
She is telling Trump that if he wants her silence, he must pardon her. Sorta makes ya think "silence about what?" doesn't it? So if Trump were actually to pardon her, the public would have to wonder why? She is, after all, a bad person. She's been found guilty of trafficking children, children we now know as young as 9, 10, and 11 years old. If Trump pardons her, he admits to the world that he wants to, needs to keep her quiet.
So, Trump, if he let her go, would damn himself. But Trump is afraid that if he didn't pardon her, she will not go gently, -- or silently - back into prison.
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