#ghislaine-maxwell

#ghislaine-maxwell

The teenage girl at the centre of the picture is dead, having taken her own life at a remote Australian farmhouse earlier this year, unable to outrun her trauma. The person who took the photograph is dead, having somehow killed himself in a New York jail while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking. The grinning woman in the background is in prison herself, exalting Donald Trump's impeccable purity in the hope of getting moved to a nicer jail or even pardoned.

As you know, that's a very contentious issue. Would you want to see Ghislaine Maxwell pardoned or would you want the opposite? Johnson replied, I would never even consider it. I mean, she's a convicted human trafficker. She was a party to this, she set it up by her own admission, she was involved in all this. There's no way she should ever leave prison.

Donald Trump went with a different tactic on Monday. During an Oval Office press conference, CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked the president if he'd consider pardoning Ghislane Maxwell, now that the Supreme Court has declined to review the 2021 conviction of Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice. "I haven't heard the name in so long," he said. "I can say this, I'd have to take a look at it."

The US supreme court has declined to hear an appeal from Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell of her sex trafficking conviction. Maxwell in 2022 was sentenced to 20 years in prison for sex trafficking and related crimes. Epstein died in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. He had pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from a minor. Donald Trump's administration has spent much of his second presidency so far struggling to contain a scandal over his past friendship with Epstein.

I don't think my colleagues are happy about covering up for pedophiles, but that's what's happening. And it's so sick and twisted. The reason they're doing it is because they're terrified of President Trump's political machine, not just his legislative affairs folks are reaching out from the White House to every Republican member of Congress who might think about co-sponsoring this, Massie continued, adding: They're getting calls from the political machine that Donald Trump runs.