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Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is set to appear before a closed-door congressional committee today

Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, is expected to use a constitutional right known as the Fifth Amendment to refuse to answer questions about Epstein

Instead, Maxwell will read a prepared statement at the outset, Democrat committee member Ro Khanna says

The hearing comes after Epstein survivors called for the full disclosure of files held by the Department of Justice following the release of more than three million documents on 30 January

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago

You mean the same Ghislaine who got transferred to a nicer prison after a meeting with Trump's lawyer and then making the statement that "Trump was a gentleman"?

I just felt like we had to remind people of this every time she is being brought to testify about anything.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 32 points 2 days ago

Why should she answer questions? She's in minimum security with work release, because she's protecting the people who sprung her from a different prison. She knows on which side her bread is buttered.

[–] homes@piefed.world 22 points 2 days ago

Even worse: her lawyer is already told the committee that she is going to plead the fifth to every question.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

What does she have to gain? NOTHING

What does she have to lose? EVERYTHING.

She worked so hard to be HERE.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Would be insane to snitch when the federal government is absolutely crawling with known pedophiles.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She needs to go back to super max and have her puppy taken away.

[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I can think a lot more worse things she deserves after she helped put children in the hands of violent child rapists.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

She didn't just help. She full on participated.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

My vote is "sent feet-first through a woodchipper running at quarter speed."

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago

I’m exhausted at this wanton corruption. 

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You LIBTARDS trying to Make CHILD SEX RAPE AND TRAFFICKING some big Thing!

-LITERALLY Republicans INCLUDING the QAnon type!

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can't we just move on and not worry about "who raped who and how old they were"?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Look forwards, not backwards. Upwards, not forwards.

Don't look up

[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Alleged Top Reddit Moderator Ghislaine Maxwell*

Whose name has never been mispronounced by the cheeto.

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

maybe she doesn't want to get epstein'd

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The fact that she hasn't yet probably means she has one hell of a deadman's switch.

[–] GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Be great if some freak accident set that in motion.

[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Didn't you hear the news?

Epstein faked his death, and now he's on his new island with Charlie Kirk in "Valhalla"...

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I would've thought the fifth wouldn't apply as she was already convicted of that stuff.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The thing about double jeopardy is that it only counts for the single unique act of breaking the law (or however many counts you're convinced of/found not guilty for).

This means that if she admits to any additional crimes that she wasn't found guilty/not-guilty for, she can be charged.

Incidentally, that's why the movie Double Jeopardy is flawed.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Can always be convicted of even more stuffs

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Send her Mossad ass to Guantanamo Bay

[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe this is her deal to stay alive and maybe/probably get a pardon?

It seems like we're mob ruled. Organized crime leading the Whitehouse and all our 3-letter agencies. Maybe this is how it's always been and trump is just making it more visible. Idk maybe not, but it's hard not to conspiracy theorize with all this.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think Trump pardoning Maxwell, will def split MAGA base. It might be just 5%-8% of the 30% diehards left. But Trump needs everyone of that percent.

[–] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately I think we're way too deep in the propaganda machine for this logic to work. That diehard base will simply not know she's pardoned because Fox News will pretend it didn't happen.

And if they're ever confronted about it they'll do mental gymnastics to get out of any shattering of their twisted reality.

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

shall we burn her at the stake instead?

[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone -1 points 1 day ago

Na, that's way too quick. Rape then flay her a bit first. There are a lot of dead, raped, and eaten children due to her. She needs to get a little bit of the same before we send her off