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Ghislaine Maxwell to seek commutation from Trump after series of high-profile pardons (www.independent.co.uk)

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A document obtained by the House Judiciary Committee Democrats, and viewed by Politico, revealed the 63-year-old’s plan, which, if approved by President Donald Trump, could see her 20-year sentence reduced.

In a letter to her lawyer, Maxwell wrote that she would send application details through the prison warden.

“I am struggling to keep it all together as it is big and there are so many attachments,” she wrote in a message with the subject line: “RE: Commutation Application,” per Politico.

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Probably depends on how Trump's handler's advise. I don't see any advantage to letting her go, all downsides. Pardoning Maxwell wouldn't be like the other corrupt people he's pardoned. She'd be a huge deal, turn even more of his base off. If she's making "testify" noises behind the scenes, they can always throw her back in hell. If I got that kinda prison upgrade, I'd STFU. Wouldn't you?

OTOH, if this application gets through his dementia, he's shown over and over that if he puts his foot down, his handlers ultimately don't have control.

Look at this from inside his dementia. He's got fuzzy memories of good times while she was present. That's all she needs for a pardon, consequences be damned.

Funny thing, can you imagine how unsafe the rest of her life would be in the free world? Surprised she didn't get shanked at the first prison.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

she's definitely getting off in exchange for her silence.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Of course she would like that, but I think her silence already got her what she wanted, which was to be moved to a lower security prison, I guess she just got a dog now, and there are probably fewer other rich people who want to hire an assassin to take her out right now. If they thought she was going to squeal, they might want to take action against her, right?