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Trump reiterates that he has the authority to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell (www.politico.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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President Donald Trump on Monday reiterated that he is “allowed” to pardon Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell but told reporters that no one has asked him to issue one to her.

When asked on Monday if he would ever consider a pardon for Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for child sex trafficking and other crimes, Trump told reporters: “Well, I’m allowed to give her a pardon, but I — nobody’s approached me with it. Nobody’s asked me about it. It’s in the news about that, that aspect of it, but right now, it would be inappropriate to talk about it.”

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[–] limer@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This can go four ways:

she remains jailed;
she goes free and nothing happens;
used to bring down some democrats like the male Clinton, but not Obama;
or somebody is made to lie about Obama and he arrests that ex president.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

You forgot she mysteriously died. (I guess that could be 'remains in jail')

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

nothing happens should be appended to all of these outcomes.

the rich and powerful created this system to protect them and people are expecting/hoping that the system will punsih the rich and powerful for being on the list; this inherent contradiction is a clear indicator of how little people are paying attention.