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struggle4progress

(123,903 posts)
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 10:06 PM Jul 24

What will happen to Ghislaine?

She testifies that she and Jeff never met Donald? Then Donald pardons her? Then unidentified masked men in ICE uniforms grab her and toss her into a van without license plates? Then Marco Rubio says she's been deported to El Savador, Todd Blanche says she's been deported to Sudan, and Pam Bondi says she's been deported to Eswatini? Then Tulsi Gabbard says nobody has any information whatsoever on the disappearance case? Then Karoline Leavitt says nobody cares what happened to Ghislaine?

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flying_wahini

(8,157 posts)
2. You ever wonder that she knows where all the bones are buried and didn't talk earlier.
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 10:11 PM
Jul 24

I would just bet she has copies of her handiwork and so many of Trumps crimes and isn’t going anywhere.

She is probably writing her memoirs by phone. She is smart enough to get it down on paper to be published if she dies mysteriously behind bars.

johnnyfins

(2,528 posts)
3. No matter what kind of deal she cuts, she still
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 10:11 PM
Jul 24

Knows WAY too much. A pardon doesn't stop her from talking.

Metaphorical

(2,484 posts)
5. Deadman's switch
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 10:28 PM
Jul 24

Maxwell, most likely before she went to prison, sat down with a lawyer with instructions to publish all kinds of interesting information if she dies under suspicious circumstances. No doubt she's hinted that she's done this, which is the only reason I can see why she's still alive when Epstein isn't.

She knows Trump will not honor his word, and very likely that anything he promised would come with a very short lifespan thereafter.

There's a fascinating study in situational ethics brewing here.

walkingman

(9,627 posts)
6. I predict that she will make a deal that allows her out after the 26 election.
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 11:33 PM
Jul 24

It won't happen until then because it will all have died down by then. She will say whatever Trump wants.

The corruption of the GOP knows no bounds. They know their base will believe anything they say.

FHRRK

(1,162 posts)
7. I think this is close to the most likely scenario
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 12:00 AM
Friday

Pardon or commuted sentence (time served)

Will bet she will state, Trump was never around when events took place, Trump had zero knowledge, will they try to push it to, "JE told me that he was hiding all of these activities from Donald, becuase he wouldn't approve and might turn him in."

And to see how far they will go, will they state, Clinton and Obama knew and participated.

misanthrope

(8,967 posts)
9. No length is too far for that bunch now
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 12:09 AM
Friday

I expect her to say she met Michelle Obama pre-sex change or other things equally as ludicrous. And the GOP will run with it.

GoodRaisin

(10,378 posts)
8. She will say Krasnov wasn't part of the pedophile ring.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 12:03 AM
Friday

Krasnov hopes to offer that lie as evidence that he is not a pedophile - instead of giving up the Epstein files that show that he is - with hope that the firestorm will die down and go away.

She will get a deal, not sure what yet. A delayed pardon, or maybe some kind of relaxed incarceration. Or they could disappear her in the dead of night without saying anything.

Diraven

(1,475 posts)
10. Pardon in exchange for pinning it on Dems
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 12:56 AM
Friday

I predict she'll be offered a full pardon in exchange for Congressional testimony that Bill Clinton is main guilty close associate of Epstein, and Hillary, Obama, and Biden all conspired with her to cover it up. She'll say Trump and Epstein were never more than business acquaintances, and all the evidence the WSJ has is fake. Then she'll be given a bunch of money and probably put into witness protection "to protect her from Democrats".

bigtree

(91,997 posts)
11. she'll be freed
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 01:02 AM
Friday

...and she'll have her own podcast by next April that she'll name, 'On The Make With Maxwell.'

H2O Man

(77,561 posts)
12. Glitter.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 01:04 AM
Friday

Obviously, she wants to get out of prison, and the felon's lawyer is making clear they are offering a pardon -- even if he never says the word "pardon." She is intelligent enough to recognize this, and corrupt enough to tell any lie.

She is of no value in terms of learning the truth. Just a distraction.

Hugin

(36,724 posts)
13. I believe this kabuki dance is to control access to her more than anything else.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 01:09 AM
Friday

Even pardoned there’s no way she’ll be free to go. While she’s in a Federal prison others with standing in her convictions and involvement in continuing investigations have access to her as a defendant and witness.

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